Further books, articles, and essays for your perusal:
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the Common Good – Michael J. Sandel (Browse)
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution – Gregory Zuckerman (Browse)
Social Mobility Myths – Peter Saunders (Browse)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism – Robin DiAngelo (Browse)
The Meritocracy Trap: The Tyranny of Just Deserts – Daniel Markovits (Browse)
Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity and Integrity – Christine Korsgaard (Browse)
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard – Jerome Karabel (Browse)
The Pursuit of Equality in American History – J. R. Pole (Browse)
Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology – Karl Mannheim (Browse)
Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century – Joseph F. Kett (Browse)
The New Class Conflict – Joel Kotkin (Browse)
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power – David Priestland (Browse)
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy – David Cannadine (Browse)
Ambition, A History: From Vice to Virtue – William Casey King (Browse)
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe – Robert Bartlett (Browse)
The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette – Simone Bertière (Browse)
In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History – Adam Bellow (Browse)
Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind – Melissa Lane (Browse)
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance – Anthony Gottlieb (Browse)
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present – Jacques Barzun (Browse)
Bureaucracy, Aristocracy and Autocracy: The Prussian Experience 1660–1815 – Hans Rosenbert (Browse)
The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of the World Order – Samuel P. Huntington (Browse)
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It – Owen Jones (Browse)
Essays on Politics and Society – John Stuart Mill (Browse)
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea – Edmund Fawcett (Browse)
Britain since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy – David Marquand (Browse)
The Transition to Social Democracy – G. Bernard Shaw (Browse)
Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century – Joseph I. Kett (Browse)
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy – Michael J. Sandel (Browse)
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism – Sven Beckert (Browse)
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made – Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas (Browse)
Political Order and Political Decay: From the French Revolution to the Present – Francis Fukuyama (Browse)
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy – Nicholas Lemann (Browse)
The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology in France – Jennifer Michael Hecht (Browse)
The Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Jay Gould (Browse)
The Inequality of Man and Other Essays – J. B. S. Haldan (Browse)
Education and the Social Order – Bertrand Russell (Browse)
The Crisis of the Meritocracy – Peter Mandler (Browse)
The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus – John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (Browse)
The Splintering of the American Mind – William Egginton (Browse)
Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem – Francis Green and David Kynaston (Browse)
How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World – for Better and for Worse – Adrian Wooldridge (Browse)
Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy – Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille (Browse)
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy – Daniel A. Bell (Browse)
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China – Evan Osnos (Browse)
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World – Branko Milanović (Browse)
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity – Luigi Zingales (Browse)
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Bryan Caplan (Browse)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – Steven Pinker (Browse)
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else – Chrystia Freeland (Browse)
Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (Browse)