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

作者：DanielMarkovits

出版社：PenguinPress

副标题：HowAmerica'sFoundationalMythFeedsInequality,DismantlestheMiddleClass,andDevourstheElite

出版年：2019-9-10

页数：448

定价：USD30.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780735221994

内容简介
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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 we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy's successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.

作者简介
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Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.

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也许有知识社会学的读法：What is conventionally called merit is actually an ideological conceit, constructed to launder a fundamentally unjust allocation of advantage. 作者分析了精英化对学术场域的影响，很贴近我的感受，之前也看到推上几个经济学教授在争论。

meritocracy不行啦，让middle class压力太大了，太明显称为上层人压榨的工具了，所以我们重新分配一下回到以前大家都有淳朴的生活的时候就好啦，就大概改革一下教育和税制就ok啦，其他不用烦心（可是明明之前说了那么多的high tech/automation威胁就业和加剧工作压力，怎么最后就不提了？你确定你不是对上个世纪的美国有太多粉红色的泡泡？（一般畅销书，看看就行

阿姨送我的书，她女儿头脑聪慧但体弱多病她很忧心，给我讲一些怪事比某州某校某年掩盖了N个学生自杀。我感觉现在美国高中也这样吧中国教育大省的高中每年都挂几个的。我认识的叔叔当校长受不了不干了。下午抓起来翻了一遍..作者慷慨陈词，类似hypereducated/superelite的大词简直吓死本韭了。他的观察和论据都非常实在-workplace training以前是雇主提供如今成本转嫁给了员工。但我…

the conjecture looks a bit fresh, but the elaborations and arguments could have been way more precise, smooth, and succinct. There are many drawbacks described, but may not due to meritocracy. The pro…

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