January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
10h 14m
English
At the heart of recent populist uprisings lies, as Michael Sandel (2020) has argued, a deep dissatisfaction with the cruel side of the liberal order: the tyranny of merit. Meritocracy, with its focus on the allocation of positions in business and society according to talent and effort, leads to humiliation among the losers. People who fail in a meritocracy have no one to blame but themselves, providing for a potent mix of humiliation and anger that leads them to turn to populists. Sandel’s analysis has generated a lot of attention. If correct, it would help explain the ...
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