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Adrian Wooldridge

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5107-6861-1
  • EAN: 9781510768611
  • Produktnummer: 36231837
  • Verlag: Skyhorse Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 504 S.
  • Masse: H23.8 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.6 cm 718 g
  • Gewicht: 718

Über den Autor


Adrian Wooldridge is the political editor and a columnist at the Economist. 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.

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