Foreign Affairs. January-February 2020

January/February 2020 147

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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