Puts forward a compelling argument for public policy to prioritise equality, and examines how greater economic equality is beneficial to all people in all societies, both for the rich and for the poor.

Danny Dorling: Danny Dorling is a social geographer and is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. He has written extensively about the widening gap between rich and poor and his work regularly appears in the media. He is author The No-nonsense Guide to Equality; The Atlas of the Real Wortd; Unequal Health; The 32 Stops; Population Ten Billion; All That is Solid, Inequality and the 1%, and Injustice: Why social inequalities persist. His views are often sought by policy makers.

1 What is the Equality Effect?
2 When we were more equal
3 Children, human development and the SDGs
4 Equality and the environment
5 Fertility, women and men, migration
6 Where equality can be found
7 How the equality effect can be set in motion