The aristocracy of talent: (Record no. 6935)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141990378
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Classification number 305.552
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wooldridge, Adrian
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The aristocracy of talent:
Remainder of title how meritocracy made the modern world
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2023
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 481 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 699.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven Pinker Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system. Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313113/the-aristocracy-of-talent-by-wooldridge-adrian/9780141990378)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Mobility -- Ability Merit -- Ethics
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Public Policy & General Management 24-25/10160 14-06-2024 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 06/15/2024 Bharat Book Distributors 485.81   305.552 WOO 006309 06/15/2024 1 699.00 06/15/2024 Book

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