1. PUBLICATIONS (including Research Digests and The Spirit Level)

A collection of reports, articles and books on the subject of income inequality.

Published by The Equality Trust

Research Digests

Research Digest #1 - Violent crime (for HTML version click here)
by The Equality Trust

Research Digest #2 - Income Inequality: trends and measures
by The Equality Trust

Research Digest #3 - Quintiles: how the other four fifths live
by The Equality Trust

Research Updates

Evidence and policy-making:speaking truth to power? 
by The Equality Trust

Fact-sheets

Inequality and social mobility
by The Equality Trust

Inequality and child well-being
by The Equality Trust

Published by others

Academic Articles

Against the Organisation of Misery? The Marmot Review of health inequalities
by Kate E Pickett and Danny Dorling

Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies: ecological cross section study
by Kate E Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson

Equality, Sustainability and Quality of Life
by Richard G Wilkinson, Kate E Pickett and Roberto de Vogli

Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

Inequality and Happiness
by Shigehiro Oishi, Selin Kesebir and Ed Diener

Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

Wider income gap, wider waistbands? An ecological study of obesity and income inequality
by Kate E Pickett, Shona Wilkinson, Eric Brunner, Tim Lobstein and Richard G Wilkinson

Why is violence more common where inequality is greater?
by Richard G Wilkinson

Why Equality Matters
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

Books

Against Power Inequalities
by Henry Tam

Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working
by David Erdal

Fair Play: Reader on Social Justice
by Danny Dorling

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy & Practice
by Molly Scott Cato

Injustice: Why social inequality persists
by Danny Dorling

Local Heroes: How Loch Fyne Oysters Embraced Employee Ownership and Business Success
by David Erdal

People-First Economics: Making a clean start for jobs, justice and climate
Edited by David Ransom & Vanessa Baird

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

Why some politicians are more dangerous than others
By James Gilligan

Reports

Cheques with Balances: why tackling high pay is in the national interest
Final report of the High Pay Commission

Missing Out
Written by Matthew Whittaker and Lee Savage for the Resolution Foundation

Fairness and Prosperity
Written by Howard Reed for ToUChstone Extras

The Ratio: common sense controls for executive pay and revitalising UK business 
A New Economics Foundation report

More for Less: what has happened to pay at the top and does it matter?
Interim report of the High Pay Commission

Growth without gain? The faltering living standards of people on low-to-middle incomes
A Resolution Foundation report by James Plunkett

Britain's livelihood crisis
A ToUChstone pamphlet by Stewart Lansley

Getting what we deserve? Attitudes to pay, reward and desert
An IPPR report by Kayte Lawton and Tess Lanning

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK
Report of the National Equality Panel

Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
by the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Unfair to Middling: How shrinking wages fuelled the crash & threaten recovery
A ToUChstone pamphlet by Stewart Lansley

Fair Society, Healthy Lives
The Marmot strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010

Is Equality Fair? What the public really think about equality - and what we should do about it
A Fabian Society publication edited by Tom Hampson and Jemima Olchawski

Understanding attitudes to tacking income inequality
A Fabian Society report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
by Louise Bamfield and Tim Horton

What are the implications of attitudes towards income inequality
A Fabian Society report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
by Brendan Barber, Eileen Devaney and Philippa Stroud

A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions
By the new economics foundation

The Impact of Income Inequalities on sustainable development in London
A Report for the London Sustainable Commission
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

The Political Debate about Economic Inequality: An information resource
A Fabian Society report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
by Ruth Sheldon with Reg Platt and Naomi Jones 

Analysis / Commentary

Dark Times for those who cannot work: No competence, no compassion in incapacity benefits
by Steve Griffith (Compass Thinkpiece)

Equality of What?
A commentary on the Equality Bill
by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E Pickett

Ideas in place of fear: reducing inequality and fermenting justice
by Danny Dorling (Compass Thinkpiece)

Inequality: mother of all evils?
Guardian article (13.03.09) with infographics on inequality
by Tom Clark

Open Letter to Barack Obama from Wealthy Millionaires for Higher Taxes and the German Millionares for a Wealth Tax

Taking the equality out of the left ghetto
by Bill Kerry (Compass Thinkpiece June,2009)

The Spirit Level Revisted: a plain man’s guide to statistical inference in The Spirit Level and in the critique offered by Peter Saunders
by Hugh Noble

Submission from The Equality Trust and One Society to the Wellbeing Consultation of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)