societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on

the world's richest societies, the Irish are now saddled with a wounded, shrinking economy, soaring

economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracy

-- Stokvels, savings clubs and burial societies -- The effect of apartheid -- Communities and access to

wealthy a society is, but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad

How should we create wealth in societies, and why is it right and necessary to do so? What improves

their consequences for states and societies around the world. Chapters provide up-to-date descriptions

Introduction -- Understanding societies: from capitalism to post-industrialism -- Societies and

"Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The

public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning

-- 4. Polities -- 5. Violence -- 6. Civil societies -- 7. Regimes of complex inequality -- 8. Varieties

health -- Understanding and organizing health care systems -- Toward healthy societies : from ideas to