The Broken Ladder Lib/E: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die (Library)
Description
Psychologist Keith Payne examines how economic inequality also has profound consequences for how we think, our cardiovascular and immune systems, and how we view morals.
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About the Author
James Anderson Foster, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has narrated audiobooks for a variety of publishers, across nearly all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. In 2015, he was a finalist in three categories for the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Voice Arts Awards--mystery, science fiction, and fantasy.
Reviews
Keith Payne has written an eye-opening book with profound resonance for the state of our world.
-- "Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author"This timely and accessible volume unpacks a complex problem, and points toward solutions.
-- "Library Journal"Smartly blending personal observations with recent research in psychology and neuroscience...[Payne] details how our perceived relative position in the scheme of things plays a 'critical role' in shaping our biases, habits, and ideas.
-- "Kirkus Reviews"The Broken Ladder's examination of the consequences of inequality-of what it is like to be poor and to feel poor-is as profound as it is revelatory.
-- "Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, author of The How of Happiness"