The meritocracy trap how America's foundational myth feeds inequality, dismantles the middle class, and devours the elite
"It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal--that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding--reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans...
| Main Author: | Markovits, Daniel, 1969- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
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Table of 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?