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Adrian Wooldridge

The Aristocracy of Talent

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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? 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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-241-39149-5
  • EAN: 9780241391495
  • Produktnummer: 34680088
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Masse: H24.0 cm x B15.6 cm

Über den Autor


Adrian Wooldridge is the Economist's political editor and author of its Bagehot column. He has also worked as the Economist's American bureau chief and author of the Lexington column, and management editor and author of the Schumpeter column. He earned a doctorate in history from Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College. He is the author of nine previous books, including Capitalism in America co-written with Alan Greenspan and six co-written with John Micklethwait: Th­e Witch Doctors, A Future Perfect, The Company, The Right Nation, God is Back and The Fourth Revolution.

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