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and equality is good for the growth of the company back on the Constitution

According to sociologists the two authors of the volume, stability falters where the widest gap between rich and those who live in poverty. The winning models: Scandinavia and Japan. The states with the most problems, however, are the U.S., Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Inequality is the mother of all evils: the wider the gap between rich and poor in a society, that society does worse from every point of view. It is less solid, less stable, more victim crime, with more ignorance, more juvenile pregnancies, more prisoners, more diseases, more obese, more depressed, more misery. Here is a theorem that would like to nostalgic old-fashioned socialism. Yet, surprisingly, comes from two sociologists who do not want to rebuild all the socialism simply advise the nations of the earth to follow the model of Scandinavia or Japan, if they have a better life. Explain it, complete with figures, graphs, statistics, in a book published these days in Britain: The Spirit Level. Why more equal societies Almost always do better.

From the halls of Oxford and Cambridge to the corridors of Westminster and Downing Street, it is spoken as the book of the year, a text that every political leader, trade unionist, enlightened entrepreneur, should read, especially when, faced with an economic downturn and financial perhaps unprecedented, everyone is wondering how to rebuild the capitalist .

The authors, the British Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, begin by stating something that many people think but not dare to say all, for fear of going through obscurantist, unproductive or lunatics, we are already rich enough. Economic growth in the last half century has done enough to improve material conditions in industrialized countries (and has begun to improve in those developing countries). Now West developed the task would be to concentrate its efforts in an attempt to make the income of its citizens more equal, at least as that of Japan and Scandinavia, not for moral reasons, not to feel better, not on behalf of a socialist egalitarianism but because, in doing so, we would all be less fat, feel better health, we would live an average of at least one more year, we had longer holidays, we fideremmo more from each other, in short, our society would be more harmonious and happy.

data in hand (collected by the UN, the World Bank, World Health Organization), the two British researchers show that the deteriorating quality of life, as a result of increased inequality stands everywhere. In virtually every index of quality of life, one can observe a strong correlation between the level of economic inequality in a country and its social outcomes.

America, for example, is the richest country in the world with the highest average income, but the longevity lowest among developed nations, the highest number of homicides, the highest percentage of prisoners in relation to population, and is at the top of the charts of obesity, unwed mothers, alcoholism, drug addiction, neurosis. And the European country that has the wider gap between rich and poor, Britain (where this gap is greatly increased rather than decreased, during the twelve years of Labour power, first with Tony Blair, now Brown), is what is top of the rankings on the same problems Social and social violence in our continent.

Western countries where people live better, says the book are those where inequality is lower, namely (in order) Japan, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Austria. But those where social problems are the strongest are those in which inequality is stronger than the United States, Portugal, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and, in seventh place, Italy, where the richest fifth of the population is 6.7 times richer than the poorest fifth (in the U.S. the difference is 8.5 times, 3.4 in Japan).

the authors conclude: to become rich had the automatic effect of making the nation healthier and more satisfied, and there is no doubt that the postwar economic miracle in Italy and elsewhere, served to it. But - in the industrialized countries - does not work anymore, because it broadens the range of enrichment for the benefit of an elite increasingly restricted. You may agree or disagree with the argument, but here is a book to be translated soon in Italian and to read to our leaders, the government and opposition.

Enrico Franceschini of the Republic from March 16, 2009

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What's it like to live in a country where the President of the Council declares its intention to close the Parliament? Let us not be reassured by those who say that this proposal "will fall on deaf ears." Not to trivialize it, not a joke occasionally declassified statement so heavy in a costume that has prevailed in recent years and that has led to the degradation of language and politics. The League of aggressive words were a powerful promotional vehicle of the spirits racist. The trickle of declarations of Berlusconi helps to destroy the antibodies that allow a system to remain democratic. Above all, we isolate the last statements of the Prime Minister by now a context characterized by a daily assault on the Constitution.

You are putting your hands on the first part of the Constitution, the one who, in words, he says he wants to keep out of any regard for reform. The law on living wills to the Senate violates the personal freedom and self determination of people. Called into question the freedom of expression and the right of citizens to be informed with the law on wiretapping. It denies the right to health as an essential element of modern citizenship when it is expected that physicians can report an illegal immigrant whose only fault is the demand for care. It is legitimizing the privatization of public security patrols, with a dangerous abdication of the state from one of the features that justify its existence. Proposals are made regarding Internet censorship. Erode the guarantees of privacy for improper reasons of efficiency. It offers a database of DNA with few guarantees for personal freedom.

It is unprecedented that our political system daily live on the margins of constitutional legality, who doubted the constitutionality of all the laws of some weight in the discussion rooms. It alters the well functioning of the institutional system, and moves the entire task of ensuring the proper functioning of the "two keepers," the President of the Republic and the Constitutional Court, which we emphasize the responsibility and the politics. And you forget that it was the political and constitutional culture marks the civilization of a country.

a moment to avert our eyes from our tearful stories, and rivolgiamolo the United States. Barack Obama is not only freeing his country from undue constraints, such as those on the prohibition of public funding for embryonic stem cell research, showing how it is possible and required a forward looking and free from fundamentalist mortgages. In a document addressed to all the leaders of the federal administration, Obama wrote that "exercising my responsibility to decide whether a law is unconstitutional, act with prudence and far, based only on interpretations of the Constitution which are solidly based." Here is evident the imperative to move away from practices detrimental to the rights of the Bush administration, just to replenish the antibodies Democrat whose destruction was undermining the internal cohesion and credibility of the United States.

What distance, which separates us from this abyss of desire restore constitutional compass operating the entire political system, and what follows is sweeping us because we're leaving that compass. Great, then, becomes the responsibility of their culture that engages with the theme of the Constitution, and with the way in which we have to look at it.

reactions, attitudes are different. It is wary of a defense of the Constitution which seems an end in itself, it does not take into account the size of the right policy. It is a concern to correct the condition, however, that the sacred invocation of a political fugitive no longer has those solid foundations, for the reasons just mentioned, are to be found in its constitutional principles. Today more than ever we need a policy of "constitutional".

In the very legitimacy of this policy is doubtful when it shows that it is the first part of the Constitution, the freedoms and rights, is marked by an unacceptable statism, the accentuation of a protective function of the public institutions opens the door to temptation statist. It is singular, or detector, the fact that this just returns when the huge failure of the deregulated economy have raised the urgent request of rules. Noise, for example, the fact that it uses the word "protection" when referring health. And yet in the United States in the field of health, there is a gigantic market failure and the reform of the system is a key part of Obama's program.

We return, then, to repeat that our Constitution should be amended because it does not give adequate space to the market recognition. What should he say, then, to Germany, whose constitution speaks of a property whose 'use must serve the good of society'? The truth is that the discomfort remains strong for the market wants an environment respectful of fundamental rights. In Italy it has come to propose the repeal of Article 41 of the Constitution, which establishes that private economic initiative "can not be held contrary to the public benefit or to harm the safety, freedom, human dignity." State or threshold of civilization?

shoulder to Berlusconi's Parliament is born in times of weak constitutionalism and has as its goal, along with the cancellation of the parliamentary system, the reset of the guarantees, the dismantling of the system of rights.

Stefano Rodota of the Republic from March 12, 2009