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	Podcast:		The John Batchelor Show
	Episode:		7/8: The Meritocratic Sunak Government in turmoil: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:07:24
	Publish Date:		2023-01-29 23:00:29
	Description:		Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1808 Berlin @Batchelorshow 7/8: The Meritocratic Sunak Government in turmoil: *The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World,* by Adrian Wooldridge https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World/dp/B0B4PWWDJ9/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655594403&sr=1-1 In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian 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 meritocratic 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.
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