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2: SELF-DOUBT
fn1 Researchers working on the DBS define power here as the ability to control material and social resources, regardless of whether this is achieved using aggressive, coercive or prosocial strategies.
4: FALSE REMEDIES
fn1 Although the USA as a whole has exactly the level of problem gambling which its level of income inequality would lead us to predict, we didn’t find the same relationship across individual US states, presumably because of the particular variations in the legality of gambling in America. Before 1964, gambling was legal only in Nevada; even today Utah and Hawaii still prohibit gambling, and in many states, the casinos established by sovereign Native American tribes on reservations, allowed since 1987, have concentrated gambling in these areas, nearly all of which are located in the generally more equal northerly mid-western and western states.
6: THE MISCONCEPTION OF MERITOCRACY
fn1 This chapter includes material from: K. Pickett and L. Vanderbloemen, Mind the Gap: Tackling Social and Educational Inequality, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust, 2015.
8: A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
fn1 Chapters 8 and 9 include material from R. Wilkinson and K. Pickett, A Convenient Truth: A Better Society for Us and the Planet, London: Fabian Society and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2014.