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The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
Taschenbuch von Daniel Markovits
Sprache: Englisch

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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal - that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding - reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream.

But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy's successes.

This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal - that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding - reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream.

But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy's successes.

This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.
Über den Autor
Daniel Markovits
Zusammenfassung
NATIONAL MEDIA: Upon hardcover publication, Markovits's ideas and opinions on the myth of meritocracy flooded trade and online publications as well as tv and radio: Original pieces in the Washington Post and Time, interviews with The Atlantic, and on Morning Joe, CNN, Sirius XM Radio's Michael Smerconish, and Slate Money, and a winning profile in the New York Times exposed audiences to his radical argument.

STRONG AND THOUGHT PROVOKING REVIEWS: In his NYT column, David Brooks called the book "powerful;" George Packer used the book as a jumping off point to discuss his own experience with meritocracy; the NYTBR called it "ambitious and distrubing." People and publications continue to engage with his argument even months after publication.

FORMIDABLE AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: This is Daniel Markovits first book for a trade readership, but he is already a revered figure in legal and Ivy League circles, and has a battery of high profile media allies at the ready to talk about his ideas

A NATION IN NEED: Ever since the 2016 presidential election, if not well before that, the American people have longed for an explanation of what's gone wrong. How can the richest and most powerful nation in the world be so divided, and seem so overwhelmed by crisis? Markovits's polemical and counterintuitive argument is the first of its kind, offering a holistic diagnosis of what ails the country

RIGOROUS, AMAZING RESEARCH: Anyone can make grand claims, but few authors come to the table with wealth of supporting evidence and research of Markovits.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780735222014
ISBN-10: 0735222010
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Markovits, Daniel
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 12 B&W FIGURES
Maße: 214 x 143 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel Markovits
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,43 kg
Artikel-ID: 118083748
Über den Autor
Daniel Markovits
Zusammenfassung
NATIONAL MEDIA: Upon hardcover publication, Markovits's ideas and opinions on the myth of meritocracy flooded trade and online publications as well as tv and radio: Original pieces in the Washington Post and Time, interviews with The Atlantic, and on Morning Joe, CNN, Sirius XM Radio's Michael Smerconish, and Slate Money, and a winning profile in the New York Times exposed audiences to his radical argument.

STRONG AND THOUGHT PROVOKING REVIEWS: In his NYT column, David Brooks called the book "powerful;" George Packer used the book as a jumping off point to discuss his own experience with meritocracy; the NYTBR called it "ambitious and distrubing." People and publications continue to engage with his argument even months after publication.

FORMIDABLE AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: This is Daniel Markovits first book for a trade readership, but he is already a revered figure in legal and Ivy League circles, and has a battery of high profile media allies at the ready to talk about his ideas

A NATION IN NEED: Ever since the 2016 presidential election, if not well before that, the American people have longed for an explanation of what's gone wrong. How can the richest and most powerful nation in the world be so divided, and seem so overwhelmed by crisis? Markovits's polemical and counterintuitive argument is the first of its kind, offering a holistic diagnosis of what ails the country

RIGOROUS, AMAZING RESEARCH: Anyone can make grand claims, but few authors come to the table with wealth of supporting evidence and research of Markovits.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780735222014
ISBN-10: 0735222010
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Markovits, Daniel
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 12 B&W FIGURES
Maße: 214 x 143 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel Markovits
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,43 kg
Artikel-ID: 118083748
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