The Good Society and How We Make It

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A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. This book shows us the way. How do we ensure that everyone has good health and is cared for when in need? How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we ensure safety, justice and a healthy environment now and for future generations? How can we finally solve the problems of poverty and inequality that drive all the others? Kate Pickett is one of the most renowned thinkers and leaders in social science. Her life’s work has been to identify the underlying causes behind society’s key challenges and how to solve them. In this book, she draws on the deepest insights and the strongest evidence produced by social science over the last three decades to present a roadmap for change.

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SKU: 9781847928726 Category: Tags: , , Publisher/imprint : The Bodley Head
Page count : 400
Published on 5th February, 2026

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A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.

‘Just what these times are crying out for’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics

‘Poverty and inequality are at the heart of all our problems. Kate Pickett’s book shows how tackling them must be at the heart of our solutions too’ ZACK POLANSKI

‘An uplifting vision for solving inequality that benefits everyone’ ANDY BURNHAM

How do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need?
How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish?
How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?

Kate Pickett is a world-leading social scientist whose life’s work has been to identify the underlying causes of society’s most important problems – and the long-term solutions that will actually work.

In this inspiring book, she shows that to make a good society – in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off – we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. This means confronting once and for all the fundamental problems of poverty and inequality that lie behind all the others.

Drawing on over three decades of evidence, and an array of proven solutions and real-world success stories from across the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, galvanising, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.

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Weight 0.63 kg
Dimensions 24.2 × 16.4 × 3.6 cm
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