The Tyranny of Merit : : What's Become of the Common Good?
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Introduction : getting in -- Winners and losers -- "Great because good" : a brief moral history of merit -- The rhetoric of rising -- Credentialism : the last acceptable prejudice -- Success ethics -- The sorting machine -- Recognizing work -- Conclusion.
"A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 272 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374289980
0374289980
SUBJECTS
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.
Populism -- United States.
Merit (Ethics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Public interest -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.