The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

Adrian Wooldridge

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

Adrian Wooldridge

504 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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