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The Meritocracy trap : how America's foundational myth feeds inequality, dismantles the middle class, and devours the elite / Daniel Markovits.

By: Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019Description: xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735221994
  • 9780735222014
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Meritocracy trapDDC classification:
  • 305.5/50973 23
LOC classification:
  • HT684 .M33 2019
Contents:
Part one. Meritocracy and its discontents. The meritocratic revolution -- The harms of meritocracy -- The coming class war -- Part two. How meritocracy works. The working rich -- The meritocratic inheritance -- Gloomy and glossy jobs -- Part three. A new aristocracy. A comprehensive divide -- Snowball inequality -- The myth of merit -- Conclusion: What should we do?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. Meritocracy and its discontents. The meritocratic revolution -- The harms of meritocracy -- The coming class war -- Part two. How meritocracy works. The working rich -- The meritocratic inheritance -- Gloomy and glossy jobs -- Part three. A new aristocracy. A comprehensive divide -- Snowball inequality -- The myth of merit -- Conclusion: What should we do?

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