The Meritocracy trap : how America's foundational myth feeds inequality, dismantles the middle class, and devours the elite /
Daniel Markovits.
- xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Meritocracy and its discontents. The meritocratic revolution -- The harms of meritocracy -- The coming class war -- Part two. How meritocracy works. The working rich -- The meritocratic inheritance -- Gloomy and glossy jobs -- Part three. A new aristocracy. A comprehensive divide -- Snowball inequality -- The myth of merit -- Conclusion: What should we do?
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Equality--United States. Intellectuals--United States. Middle class--United States.