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The Meritocracy Trap pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.
#一个简单的概念怎么能扯这么长#系列。 目前看到第一章,感觉他聊的都是精英治理被扭曲后产生的弊端,而不是精英治理本身的问题。是裙带主义的陷阱,而不是精英治理的陷阱吧。
评分#一个简单的概念怎么能扯这么长#系列。 目前看到第一章,感觉他聊的都是精英治理被扭曲后产生的弊端,而不是精英治理本身的问题。是裙带主义的陷阱,而不是精英治理的陷阱吧。
评分Markovits发现meritocratic system (在他的语境里特指美国社会)中的一个现象是elite都去做了对社会无价值甚至是产生负价值的工作,代表性案例即是financial services.
评分最后的建议带有学者的天真。例子很多,但也有点啰嗦。不管怎么说,是时候讨论meritocracy的问题了,为这个加半星。
评分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。
@yiqin_fu 这几天,很多经济学教授在讨论他们读博的时候如何应对课业繁重的第一年。有一位哈佛大学教授说,如果你不想第一年每周学习 80 小时的话,可以在入学前上一遍博士难度的数学、经济课程,这样进入博士项目以后只要复习就行了。他还说很多他最好的学生都是这么做的。 另...
评分@yiqin_fu 这几天,很多经济学教授在讨论他们读博的时候如何应对课业繁重的第一年。有一位哈佛大学教授说,如果你不想第一年每周学习 80 小时的话,可以在入学前上一遍博士难度的数学、经济课程,这样进入博士项目以后只要复习就行了。他还说很多他最好的学生都是这么做的。 另...
评分@yiqin_fu 这几天,很多经济学教授在讨论他们读博的时候如何应对课业繁重的第一年。有一位哈佛大学教授说,如果你不想第一年每周学习 80 小时的话,可以在入学前上一遍博士难度的数学、经济课程,这样进入博士项目以后只要复习就行了。他还说很多他最好的学生都是这么做的。 另...
评分@yiqin_fu 这几天,很多经济学教授在讨论他们读博的时候如何应对课业繁重的第一年。有一位哈佛大学教授说,如果你不想第一年每周学习 80 小时的话,可以在入学前上一遍博士难度的数学、经济课程,这样进入博士项目以后只要复习就行了。他还说很多他最好的学生都是这么做的。 另...
评分@yiqin_fu 这几天,很多经济学教授在讨论他们读博的时候如何应对课业繁重的第一年。有一位哈佛大学教授说,如果你不想第一年每周学习 80 小时的话,可以在入学前上一遍博士难度的数学、经济课程,这样进入博士项目以后只要复习就行了。他还说很多他最好的学生都是这么做的。 另...
The Meritocracy Trap pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024