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Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap, Penguin Random House, 484 pp., 2019, $ 18. Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit, 288 pp., Allen Lane, 2020 £ 20.00 (HB)/£ 9.99 (PB)

“Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping?“ (Hamlet)

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Pelloni, A. Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap, Penguin Random House, 484 pp., 2019, $ 18. Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit, 288 pp., Allen Lane, 2020 £ 20.00 (HB)/£ 9.99 (PB). J Econ 136, 269–276 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-022-00791-x

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