Looks at the history of meritocracy, and at its recent corruption. Rather than abandon it, he argues in favour of a renewed social mobility.
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978024139149503/06/2021
Categories: 04. Spring Books 2021: Current Affairs, Current Affairs, Politics & Economics, Spring Books 2021
Tags: Economic history, History of ideas, Poverty and precarity, Social and cultural history, Social classes, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Social mobility, Sociology: work and labour
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