TY - BOOK AU - Sandel,Michael J. TI - The tyranny of merit: what's become of the common good? SN - 9780374289980 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Polarization (Social sciences) KW - United States KW - Populism KW - Merit (Ethics) KW - Social aspects KW - Public interest KW - Social mobility KW - Globalization KW - Political aspects KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - Instructional and educational works KW - lcgft KW - Creative nonfiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : getting in -- Winners and losers -- "Great because good" : a brief moral history of merit -- The rhetoric of rising -- Credentialism : the last acceptable prejudice -- Success ethics -- The sorting machine -- Recognizing work -- Conclusion N2 - "A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces"-- ER -