The tyranny of merit : what's become of the common good?
Title:
The tyranny of merit : what's become of the common good?
Author:
Sandel, Michael J., author.
ISBN:
9780374289980
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
272 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
"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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