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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.
用戶評價
##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##[有聲書] 好像評價有點低呢。囉嗦確實是個弊病，但作者真的指齣瞭一些meritocracy所帶來的問題，非常詳實的數據支持，總的來說是在看super rich和middle class以及middle class和poor之間的區彆之比較，從收入、教育、醫療、健康等等方麵分析。或許牽強的是是否meritocracy是這一切的根源，這也是causality和association難以區分的好例子。比較警醒的是我們逐漸習以為常的一些理念：“懶惰不行”“靠自己努力過上好日子並要將這些優勢傳遞給下一代”“work life balance隻是美好幻象”。不得不說對這類問題的探討，教育資源不均真是風口浪尖。
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##阿姨送我的書，她女兒頭腦聰慧但體弱多病她很憂心，給我講一些怪事比某州某校某年掩蓋瞭N個學生自殺。我感覺現在美國高中也這樣吧中國教育大省的高中每年都掛幾個的。我認識的叔叔當校長受不瞭不乾瞭。下午抓起來翻瞭一遍..作者慷慨陳詞，類似hypereducated/superelite的大詞簡直嚇死本韭瞭。他的觀察和論據都非常實在-workplace training以前是雇主提供如今成本轉嫁給瞭員工。但我覺得整本書忽視瞭瞭一個大的矛盾，即生産力與生産關係的矛盾，人力不值錢，製造閤格勞動力的養育成本太高，更不用說醫生律師等。養孩假設按照每年20W成本，復利10%20年後總成本1145W；換做15%復利總成本就變成2048W瞭..啥樣的工作能justify這種投入啊？那可不就形成瞭一個trap..
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##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。
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##瀏覽瞭下，想法不新穎，然後法律係教授分析東西還是錶麵。建議多看看社會學對Merit的係統性批判。。。
評分##頁麵下很多評論都指齣瞭這本書的問題：羅列瞭很多事實但是完全沒有一點有深度的分析。6分是很閤適的評價。
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