Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy
Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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English
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Critiques of the meritocracy have centered on its narrow definition and biased assessment of merit, its stigmatization of the unsuccessful, and excessive competition. This paper identifies a different mechanism that could have pernicious social and political consequences. Economic mobility sorts people based on certain ‘productive’ traits, separati...
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Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2892385231
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1744-1374
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1744-1382
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10.1017/S174413742100045X
