We are rich enough. Economic growth has done as much as it can to improve material conditions in the developed countries, and in some cases appears to be damaging health. If Britain were instead to concentrate on making its citizens' incomes as equal as those of people in Japan and Scandinavia, we could each have seven extra weeks' holiday a year, we would be thinner, we would each live a year or so longer, and we'd trust each other more.
Book review - spirit level - Does Income Inequality Hurt Countries? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/13/the-spirit-level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfFNYHf6g74
26 min interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0sBsZfzJk&feature=related
1hr 30 min presentation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDzA9hKCNQ&feature=related
Discussion with various economists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHFdEhsbxg&feature=related
Richard part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hd84ug3T6o
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=NTTwzi09hU0
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0anAztcyRL8
