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The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
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The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits

By Timothy Sandefur

Dec 18, 2020
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New York: Penguin, 2019

418 pp., $30 (hardcover)

This is a book about Stakhanovites. That’s a word that originated during the bleakest days of Soviet totalitarianism, when a Russian miner named Alexey Stakhanov set a record by digging more coal during one shift than had ever been mined before. Stalin’s deputies made him into an artificial folk hero by for…

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