Hardcover • 2021 • English

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

By Adrian Wooldridge

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'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes. Wooldridge upends many common assumptions and provides an indispensable back story to this fraught and pressing issue.' Steven Pinker ' The Aristocracy of Talent provides an important an...Show more

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2021

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English

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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

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