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The Aristocracy of Talent

Autor Adrian Wooldridge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2023
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*

'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven Pinker

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?

Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system.

Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal.
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ISBN-13: 9780141990378
ISBN-10: 0141990376
Pagini: 481
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin

Notă biografică

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Previously, he worked for the Economist for thirty-two years, including stints as its Lexington, Schumpeter and Bagehot columnist. He earned a doctorate in history from Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College. He is the author of ten previous books, including Capitalism in America co-written with Alan Greenspan and seven co-written with John Micklethwait: The Wake-Up Call, Th­e Witch Doctors, A Future Perfect, The Company, The Right Nation, God is Back and The Fourth Revolution.