Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present Khanna Tarun
Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present Khanna Tarun How do societies identify and promote merit? These are not new concerns. Enabling all people to fulfill…
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Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present Khanna Tarun
How do societies identify and promote merit? These are not new concerns. Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society.
They focus on how contemporary policy makers, educators, and private-sector practitioners seek to promote it 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.