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The Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Dorothy and today I'm joined by Kate Pickett to discuss the mental

health effects of inequality.

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Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology at York University

and the co-founder of the Equality Trust.

She's the co-author of the best-selling The Spirit Level,

Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, published in 2009, and also The Inner Level, How More Equal Societies Reduced Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing, which was published last month by Penguin Alan Lane.

So in the new book, The Inner level that you co-wrote with Richard

Wilkinson, obviously you're looking at the relationship between inequality and mental health,

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