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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,458 ratings — published 2020
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,232 ratings — published 2019
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 510 ratings — published 2021
The Rise of the Meritocracy (Classics in Organization and Management Series)
by (shelved 6 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.78 — 546 ratings — published 1958
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,047 ratings — published 2012
Against Meritocracy: Culture, power and myths of mobility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 101 ratings — published
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.62 — 276 ratings — published 2015
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,231 ratings — published 2016
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,874 ratings — published 1904
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,405 ratings — published 2003
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.54 — 950 ratings — published 2020
The Case for Meritocracy (The Political Series Book 3)
by (shelved 2 times as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published
Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.44 — 61 ratings — published
When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.36 — 536 ratings — published 2023
The Myth of American Meritocracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published 2012
Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published 1999
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.40 — 202,012 ratings — published 2007
El informe Penkse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.82 — 218 ratings — published
The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 272 ratings — published 2016
The Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,488 ratings — published 1959
A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st Century (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.06 — 531 ratings — published 2015
Social Mobility and Its Enemies (Pelican Books)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.01 — 241 ratings — published
The End of Aspiration?: Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,239 ratings — published 2003
Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 109 ratings — published
The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World (Markets and Governments in Economic History)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.73 — 59 ratings — published 2011
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,021 ratings — published 2014
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,031 ratings — published 2018
Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzche's New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.91 — 972 ratings — published 2022
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,161 ratings — published
Waarom schurken pech hebben en helden geluk: een nieuwe filosofie van de vrije wil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.60 — 354 ratings — published
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2013
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,683 ratings — published 2016
Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.79 — 24 ratings — published 1931
The Epic of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.18 — 80 ratings — published 1931
The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.66 — 82 ratings — published 2017
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,253 ratings — published 2016
Diplomademocratie: Over de spanning tussen meritocratie en democratie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.95 — 39 ratings — published 2011
The Best and the Brightest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,728 ratings — published 1969
Happycracia: Cómo la ciencia y la industria de la felicidad controlan nuestras vidas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,704 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,428,005 ratings — published 1945
The Meritocracy Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 144 ratings — published 2004
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,740 ratings — published 2018
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,385 ratings — published 2001
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 206 ratings — published 2015
The Philosopher Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,987 ratings — published 2015
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,394 ratings — published -400
The Shape of Things to Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meritocracy)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,310 ratings — published 1933
“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”
― Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
― Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
