Michael Sandel on Meritocracy
Here is an interview with Michael Sandel, a leading American thinker and political philosopher at Harvard. In this time of global crisis and pandemic, when the growing inequalities in the world are becoming increasingly apparent and unsustainable - and when we appear to be acknowledging the essential role played by poorly paid 'key workers' - it is high time to think again. This comes hot on the heels of his latest published reflections on meritocracy:
He is famous for his popular, highly understandable and dynamic online series of Harvard lectures on Justice. I would recommend his book What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets:
And his latest work, released this month, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good.
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