Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780449010051 (0449010058)
Publish date: June 12th 2012
Publisher: Random House Audio
Minutes: 6
Edition language: English
I won Twilight of the Elites from Goodreads Giveaways. In essence, what Hayes argues is that the current political, social, & business structure in America, that he identifies as Meritocracy, which is in theory based entirely on merits or intellectual prowess, is overestimated and not working proper...
Well worth reading, but nothing really new or earth shattering. Hayes writes well and very clearly describes the problems with our current politics and economy. According to him the biggest problem is inequality, the concentration of wealth and power among a small number of "elites" and the corres...
This book examines the problems with meritocracy. In this country we've decided we don't care about equality of outcome as long as we have equality of opportunity. However, as Hayes makes clear, you can ignore inequality of outcome only so long before it starts to make equality of opportunity impo...
My knee-jerk reaction is that we've never had a meritocracy, or else how to explain George Bush? I'd say that the natural order of things is rule by kleptocracy, and that only a vigorous effort to keep things untainted holds that tendency back. I'm also not convinced that the current rulers are any ...
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