Professor explains how economic inequality harms societies

University of Nottingham professor Richard Wilkinson showed during a recent TEDTalk that economic inequality was associated with the health and basic values of a society. There is no correlation between a country's economic prosperity and the average lifespan of its citizens, he explained. But as economic inequality increases, overall measures of health decline, and it is not just the poor who are affected.

Watch video, courtesy of TED, below: