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The Good Society

byKate Pickett

And How We Make It

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A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. This book shows us the way.

How do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need?
How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish?
How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?

Kate Pickett is a world-leading social scientist whose life’s work has been to identify the underlying causes of society’s most important problems – and the long-term solutions that will actually work.

In this inspiring book, she shows that to make a good society – in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off – we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. This means confronting once and for all the fundamental problems of poverty and inequality that lie behind all the others.

Drawing on over three decades of evidence, and an array of proven solutions and real-world success stories from across the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, galvanising, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.

Packed with vision, hope and a practical plan – just what these times are crying out for

Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics

About Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, where she leads the Public Health and Society Research Group.

Her landmark book The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, co-written with Richard Wilkinson, was an international bestseller, chosen by the Guardian as one of the 100 most influential books of the century and by the New Statesman as a top ten book of the decade. Their follow-up, The Inner Level, shows how societal inequality has similarly profound effects on individual health and wellbeing.

Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Nature and New York Times, and she has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches, including at the United Nations, the European Parliament and within UK government departments.

Kate is the co-founder of the Equality Trust, an academic co-director of Health Equity North, and a fellow of the RSA, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2023, she received an OBE for services to societal equality.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529957501
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Price: £13.99
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