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Adrian Wooldridge

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in Shrewsbury, The United Kingdom

November 11, 1959

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Adrian Wooldridge (born November 11, 1959) is the Management Editor and, since 1 April 2017, the 'Bagehot' columnist for The Economist newspaper. He was formerly the 'Schumpeter' columnist. Until July 2009 he was The Economist's Washington Bureau Chief and the 'Lexington' columnist.

Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history, and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College, also at Oxford University, where he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1985. From 1984 to 1985 he was also a Harkness Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. ...more

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	The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World 3.88 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World―for Better and for Worse – The Updated Classic and Essential Guide 3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism 4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Disruption: How Business is Coping with Turbulent Times (Economist Books) by Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860-c. 1990 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meritocracy and the 'Classless Society' really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World by Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Education and the Labour Market: An English Disaster 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Peter Drucker once noted that “no institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under the leadership of perfectly normal human beings.” Warren Buffet made the same point more pithily: “I only invest in companies which any fool can run, because some day some fool will run it.”
― Adrian Wooldridge, Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

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“The fear of mob rule had deep roots. Plato warned that the mob’s taste for plunder and demagoguery leads to the rule of tyrants. Aristotle maintained that mob rule is democracy’s ‘dark shadow’ just as tyranny is kingship’s dark shadow. Medieval thinkers invented a slew of”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

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“In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

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