Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the...
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Author: Tarun Khanna
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Language: English
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Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present by Khanna, Tarun

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

€78,64

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

€78,64
Author: Tarun Khanna
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and India have been pondering them for centuries and continue to do so today, with enormously high stakes.

In Making Meritocracy, Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of intellectual perspectives--political science, history, philosophy, anthropology, economics, and applied mathematics--to discuss how the two most populous societies in the world have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. They focus on how contemporary policy makers, educators, and private-sector practitioners seek to promote it today. Importantly, they also discuss Singapore, which is home to large Chinese and Indian populations and the most successful meritocracy in recent times. Both China and India look to it for lessons. Though the past, present, and future of meritocracy building in China and India have distinctive local inflections, their attempts to enhance their power, influence, and social well-being by prioritizing merit-based advancement offers rich lessons both for one another and for the rest of the world--including
rich countries like the United States, which are currently witnessing broad-based attacks on the very idea of meritocracy.


Author: Tarun Khanna
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/26/2022
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.18w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780197602478

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