The Tyranny of Merit
Subtitle: What's Become of the Common Good?
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 15, 2020
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780374289980
Copyright date: 2020
First sentence: When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, the United States, like many other countries, was unprepared.
Notes: Source title: The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 3; title: Introduction: Getting In
pagenum: 7; label: 1
title: Winners and Losers
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: "Great Because Good": A Brief Moral History of Merit
pagenum: 33; label: 3
title: The Rhetoric of Rising
pagenum: 59; label: 4
title: Credentialism:  The Last Acceptable Prejudice
pagenum: 81; label: 5
title: Success Ethics
pagenum: 113; label: 6
title: The Sorting Machine
pagenum: 155; label: 7
title: Recognizing Work
pagenum: 197; title: Conclusion: Merit and the Common Good
pagenum: 223; title: Notes
pagenum: 229; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 259; title: Index
pagenum: 261