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76Business aT a CrossroadsHigh levels of inequality cause serious social problems. In their

76 Business aT a Crossroads High levels of inequality cause serious social problems. In their book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett marshal a wealth of evidence showing that social ills, including rates of physical and mental illness, teenage births, crime, obesity and violence, and relatively low educational performance and social mobility, all correlate much more closely with the degree of inequality within societies than with absolute levels of income. Inequality is the curse of mature, liberal capitalist societies, particularly of the U.S. and the U.K. Wilkinson and Pickett argue that instead of addressing social ills on a piecemeal basis,. | 76 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS High levels of inequality cause serious social problems. In their book The spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett marshal a wealth of evidenceshowingthatsocial ills. incltidingsatesof physical and mental illeesSa teenage births crime obesityand vtoitnae aod relatively low edccationa-pnofosminiee tedsocial mobftiactall cnereiade much more ctnaelowifh the deo-tcof inequaSity withio cocieties than with absolutelovelsefinncme.tne h ki.iiiy- isuts cutin otmaturejcberal capitalist sociecseSi yyeãcu ís adche u.h.aedche U.K.Wclkinsoq tnd Pickett argue tqacidtfceO ofaddtastsng soaitlilli on aplqaames- ttsiSi policymakerssheuld tocuo on reducSngmeyuaSiCh.5 It s not in oebi oO csueae tOcb ell cnmnorietevill follow tteUnS. and U.K. pat. tuweudgrowlngineqosiity iiiOí nt pc iOc re tkems to be a divergence betwetn tto U.K. and syoihernEacrapeoicoundies on the one hand.nndmo reeqaliteuian p.editie inOocudlkavia aodGermoeo on the otheu. nsoecoxn uo Gmis ore mOudneedtn tfadisions aefleGod as tax rates as woHts bytnsaribuyono es cl lel tlGsoi-etilltl comnanifs. It remaiet to a e soen. whothor such natfonaiotsOdspendeneitt the tendentyforceaditfonal diskribudons etinedma andwabith sobs maintained will io sucnng eTG ht -c to iqó t ths uqwtud ìru ssic on national Gir is axetnen ky targ gletal corpGcetíonSl otgenizeU nas Anglo-Saxoe iineSo This boot foetses uct che U.S. nnG ìSic U.SC. however ted for theee two countries ehe dcnetr Ct dear. We are in unchaasedsemsosy Maeqre dbeacibhpscalist socsytíeoSevc never been teseedOn rush Snenutlioiec. SaO one knows how they will react. Protests saatíSnly. RSoss onav potsibiy.Rcvoitsand citci waise unlikely. Butofoee couldwefibe a poSitica-iouch os theaeft a 1 so some form oasocialism-and aiocsofmaeket freedtms. ThDiewhofctr any such deveiopmen0lthKsId beaneo. Accordingro die U.K.Insrieyte ton FI-csI daxdiesttFS the U.K Gini coefficient O an fromX.Ot illlel7nli l l.U4 in the early 1990s. The scale of .