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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Wooldridge
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2021-07-13
- Pages
- 504
- ISBN
- 9781510768611
- Book Title
- Aristocracy of Talent : How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Economy, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 504 Pages
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The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, 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? In The Aristocracy of Talent , esteemed journalist and historian 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 meritocratic 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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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1510768610
ISBN-13
9781510768611
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050408687
Product Key Features
Book Title
Aristocracy of Talent : How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Economy, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23 Oz
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"Wonderful... The Aristocracy of Talent provides an important and needed corrective to contemporary critiques of meritocracy. It puts meritocracy in an illuminating historical and cross-cultural perspective that shows how critical the judgment of people by their talents rather than their bloodlines or connections has been to creating the modern world. Highly recommended." --Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, "Erudite, thoughtful and magnificently entertaining book." --James Marriott, The Times (London) "Unfailingly entertaining, effortlessly drawing on a wealth of anecdote and statistics." -- Times Literary Supplement "This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy is misplaced--and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honored customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism, and hereditary castes. Wooldridge upends many common assumptions and provides an indispensable back story to this fraught and pressing issue." --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University "Wonderful... The Aristocracy of Talent provides an important and needed corrective to contemporary critiques of meritocracy. It puts meritocracy in an illuminating historical and cross-cultural perspective that shows how critical the judgment of people by their talents rather than their bloodlines or connections has been to creating the modern world. Highly recommended." --Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies "This is an important, fascinating and superbly written book. The Aristocracy of Talent pulls the rug out from under the current assault on meritocracy. How quickly we forget that reformers struggled for centuries to displace privilege of birth with merit-based judgments. Rejecting merit in favor of equal outcomes, Adrian Wooldridge persuasively argues, is like handing the keys of the future to China and other cultures focused on results. Does the assault on core values leave you at a loss for words? Read this book." --Philip K Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense and founder of Common Good, "Wonderful... The Aristocracy of Talent provides an important and needed corrective to contemporary critiques of meritocracy. It puts meritocracy in an illuminating historical and cross-cultural perspective that shows how critical the judgment of people by their talents rather than their bloodlines or connections has been to creating the modern world. Highly recommended." --Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies "This is an important, fascinating and superbly written book. The Aristocracy of Talent pulls the rug out from under the current assault on meritocracy. How quickly we forget that reformers struggled for centuries to displace privilege of birth with merit-based judgments. Rejecting merit in favor of equal outcomes, Adrian Wooldridge persuasively argues, is like handing the keys of the future to China and other cultures focused on results. Does the assault on core values leave you at a loss for words? Read this book." --Philip K Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense and founder of Common Good
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Dewey Decimal
305.513
Dewey Edition
23
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