Reviews for Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

The average rating for Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-12 00:00:00 Wayne Walker This book is a well-researched presentation of the impact of socioeconomic inequality on a wide variety of things. Social cohesion, individual health, life expectancy, trust in government, consumer indebtedness - it's all in here. Inequality affects all of it, and it's all moving in the wrong direction here in the United States. Those of us who have been observing trends in U.S. culture over the last twenty years or so won't be surprised. The book is clearly meant to inspire outrage, and here's where it goes wrong in my opinion. The tone starts out measured, detached and sensible, but devolves into becoming rather shrill towards the end. That's why this book gets only three stars from me. As someone with an inherent distaste for inequality, of course I found my own opinions confirmed, but I don't think the book is likely to make any converts.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-16 00:00:00 John Guilmet The narrative of the underlying mechanism is somewhat nebulous.