A new book by the University of Sheffield geographer Danny Dorling has caught my eye. It's Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists and his website provides all the data the book cites. I'm a big fan of his earlier work, which addresses the same terrain as the best urban and regional economists, with added passion to combat inequality and injustice. He's recently done superb stuff on the visualization of social data.

Without having read his new book, I'm confident it will be a far more rigorous attack on inequality and its effects than the much hyped but statistically feeble The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (reviewed on this blog).

Today's Society supplement in The Guardian has a feature about Dorling . He's quoted thus on his book: “I feel very wimpy saying this, but I'm hardly saying, 'We
want a revolution, we want a utopia.' I'm just saying, 'Can we be
slightly less stupid, and we'll all be better off for it.'” It sounds spot on.