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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

By Daniel Markovits
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Unabridged — 14 hours, 13 minutes
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By Daniel Markovits
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Unabridged — 14 hours, 13 minutes
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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...