From WSJbooks: The acquisition of status and wealth strictly on merit would seem to be a democratic ideal. In practice, 'The Meritocracy Trap' argues, it has been a disaster for America.
“The Meritocracy Trap” is a work in the line of Thorstein Veblen’s “The Theory of the Leisure Class” , John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Affluent Society” and Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” .
Combining economics and sociology, two less than promising fields of intellectual endeavor, these books attempted to describe an underlying reality of American life that at the time was not fully understood by Americans themselves. How the rich live, the disparities between wealth in the nation’s private sector and poverty in its public sector, the shockingly large number of Americans living in poverty, such...
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