Caroline Lucas: Where now for Social Democracy in Europe?

Submitted 15 January 2010

...according to the groundbreaking work by British authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the key to reducing the cultural pressure to consume is greater equality. In their book The Spirit Level they set out how greater equality makes growth much less necessary, revealing research which shows that many people would rather trade as much as half their real income if they could live in a society in which they would be better-off than others – showing the extent to which we value relative status over actual material wealth....

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