Injustice: why social inequality persists

摘要

Danny Dorling challenges our thinking throughout this book, backing up his arguments with careful and thorough reporting of evidence. For those not affronted by the frequent rejection of accepted ideas, this will be a refreshing opportunity to reconsider evidence of social inequality, how inequality arises, and how it may be reduced. Dorling identifies five beliefs about unfairness that spring from human nature: "that elitism is efficient, exclusion is necessary, prejudice is natural, greed is good and despair is inevitable. Each belief also creates a distinct set of victims—the delinquents, the debarred, the discarded, the debtors and the depressed" (page 2). Dorling attempts to debunk each of these beliefs, the demise of which he anticipates will be all the easier once our guilt is exposed and the lessons of historical periods of greater equality are learned.