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The Importance of Equality for Societal Prosperity and Growth

This excerpt emphasizes the idea that a society cannot truly flourish if a significant portion of its members lives in poverty and misery. Quoting Adam Smith, it suggests that improving the conditions of the majority benefits the whole community. The works of Wilkinson and Pickett corroborate this notion by illustrating how greater equality can lead to happier and stronger societies, reinforcing the belief that inequality is detrimental not only to individuals but to society at large.

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The Importance of Equality for Societal Prosperity and Growth

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  1. Source: IBHE Data Books, 1973-2010.

  2. Excerpted from: R. Kahlenberg, Left Behind: Unequal Opportunity in Higher Education, The Century Foundation, 2008.

  3. What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter VIII, p. 96

  4. What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter VIII.

  5. Source: R. Wilkinson and K. Picket, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 2010, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  6. Source: R. Wilkinson and K. Picket, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 2010, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  7. Source: T. Jackson, Prosperity Without Growth, 2009, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  8. Source: R. Wilkinson and K. Picket, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 2010, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  9. Source: R. Wilkinson and K. Picket, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 2010, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  10. Source: R. Wilkinson and K. Picket, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 2010, cited in Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review, April 29, 2010.

  11. Source: IBHE Data Books, 1973-2010.

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