Friday, December 17, 2010

Meritocracy - as it was originally meant

http://www.economist.com/node/3518560?story_id=3518560

"Everywhere you look in modern America — in the Hollywood Hills or the canyons of Wall Street, in the Nashville recording studios or the clapboard houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts — you see elites mastering the art of perpetuating themselves."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment


www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap133.doc


http://books.google.com/books?id=DqlGuTpjmFUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Big+Test:+The+Secret+History+of+the+American+Meritocracy&source=bl&ots=2qsNli7h4Z&sig=o6qUqxxgcTAPS50XS15TbOnezMA&hl=en&ei=qUgMTdqgLYKC8gbP9MykAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false





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