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Works of social diagnosis and pre-
scription are always produced from
within a particular time and place and
culture. Some of them wind up looking
like trenchant analysis, and others like
documents that vividly expose the world
from which they emerged. The Meritoc-
racy Trap seems destined to wind up in
the latter category. It displays a brilliant
mind choosing to understand a great
global turn toward market ideology and
policy as the product of changes at a
handful of elite universities. That’s a
sign of how unconsciously constrained
the view from those places can be.∂
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