The Meritocracy Trap: Daniel Markovits
January 10, 2020
“Meritocracy is just an ideological construction designed to make inequality okay, when inequality is not okay.”
Daniel Markovits is the author of The Meritocracy Trap as well as Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His book places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social political dysfunction. We talk about how the myth of meritocracy feeds inequality and erodes democracy.