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The Meritocracy Trap pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.
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.
##The overconfident elite & a group of depressed ppl tried in vain to alleviate the inequality caused by the system. The continued embrace of financial products and debt-backed consumption for decades finally triggered the financial turmoil & the Great Recession. This conclusion is unbelievably stupid
評分##最後的建議帶有學者的天真。例子很多,但也有點囉嗦。不管怎麼說,是時候討論meritocracy的問題瞭,為這個加半星。
評分##也許有知識社會學的讀法:What is conventionally called merit is actually an ideological conceit, constructed to launder a fundamentally unjust allocation of advantage. 作者分析瞭精英化對學術場域的影響,很貼近我的感受,之前也看到推上幾個經濟學教授在爭論。
評分##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 proposed fixes, are probably doomed to fail or abused...Many of the arguments boil down to one question: would there ever be a real equality?
評分##meritocracy不行啦,讓middle class壓力太大瞭,太明顯稱為上層人壓榨的工具瞭,所以我們重新分配一下迴到以前大傢都有淳樸的生活的時候就好啦,就大概改革一下教育和稅製就ok啦,其他不用煩心(可是明明之前說瞭那麼多的high tech/automation威脅就業和加劇工作壓力,怎麼最後就不提瞭?你確定你不是對上個世紀的美國有太多粉紅色的泡泡?(一般暢銷書,看看就行
評分##時不時會有一本書,讓我覺得把頭腦裏一直以來模糊的想法梳理清楚,片段的觀念串珠成綫,這本書就是這樣的。“擇優錄取”錶麵看來是如此正確、先進、優良、公平的一個製度,但深挖下去,和很多東西一樣,藏著各種黑洞。不,我並不認為我們需要打倒擇優這件事——比起很多其他的製度,它依然是遠遠領先的,但是,意識到一件事情不那麼“理所當然”,看到隱藏在褶皺裏被人忽視的裂縫,以及這些裂縫裏的人,和他們的掙紮,是任何社會、和製度前進的條件。另外一個有醍醐灌頂效果的是書裏提到,既得利益階級和他們的後代,同樣是這種製度的受害者,就像劍齒虎誇張的獠牙已經偏離瞭進化的優勢,卻成為沉重的負擔一樣。所以在個人層麵上,我在聽這本書時想得最多的一句話就是,我不打算成為這個擇優遊戲的犧牲品,我也不會讓我的孩子成為犧牲品。
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