The Aristocracy of Talent : How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Author: Wooldridge, Adrian
ISBN: 9780241391495
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Publisher,Allen Lane
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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?
