Yet such attempts are doomed to disappoint, say British social scientists, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, because they conceive of each social ill in isolation, rather than treating their shared root cause.

ECONOMIST: Social inequality: Always with us? | The

In what has become a policymaker's must-read, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claim to have discovered that, across developed countries, the greater the income inequality in any country, the worse the health and social outcomes for everyone: rich and poor.

BBC: The Wealth Gap - Inequality in Numbers