The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits

This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isnt a virtuous efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middleclass families who can afford huge investments in their childrens education ... Frightening eyeopening stuff The Times Books of the Year Even in the midst of runaway economic inequality and dangerous social division it remains an axiom of modern life that meritocracy reigns supreme and promises to open opportunity to all Paperback softback