Equality Trust's Kate Pickett: 'we need equality as a substitute for growth'

Philobiblon has a post on a speech by the Equality Trust's Kate Pickett, in which she quickly demonstrated how 'growth has been used as a substitute for equality', and why it ought not to be.

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett were the authors of the Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better: here is their evidence; and here are a report and a review of the book.