'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really... Zobraziť viac
Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology... Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018. Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does innovation play in creating prosperity and why do some eras see the fruits of... Zobraziť viac
Penguin: In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their... Zobraziť viac
America, argue John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, award winning journalists at The Economist, has always been a conservative country; but over the past 50 years it has built up a radical conservative movement unlike any other country. Zobraziť viac