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WRR-Lecture 2013 – Richard Wilkinson – The Social Impact of Inequality by ScientificCouncilWRR is licensed under CC BY 3.0. An audio excerpt was extracted from the original video and transcribed.
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I sometimes start off by telling audiences that I’m going to tell you what you know already. And if I asked you which country has the highest levels … which of the rich, developed countries have the highest level of violence, the biggest prison populations, the highest levels of obesity, you’d know it was the United States. If I asked you which ones do well on all those things, you’d know it was the Scandinavian countries. I think the only thing that surprises people is how closely these sorts of outcomes relate to income inequality, not only at the extremes, the United States and the Scandinavian countries, but also in between. In fact, in our work, you can remove those countries at the extreme, and you’ve still got a significant correlation.