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The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
By John Carson
Hardcover
$85.00
By John Carson
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A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries
How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications.
Surveying a broad array of political tracts, ph...
How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications.
Surveying a broad array of political tracts, ph...
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