Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

Khanna, Tarun (Editor)/ Szonyi, Michael (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0197602479 / ISBN 13: 9780197602478

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2022

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392 pages. 9.16x6.18x1.07 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197602479
• ISBN 13: 9780197602478
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.65 kilograms

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Synopsis

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society, and failure to meet them can have enormous costs. In Making Meritocracy, Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of intellectual perspectives to discuss how China and India have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. Though the past, present, and future of meritocracy building in China and India have distinctive local inflections, their attempts to enhance their power, influence, and social well-being by prioritizing merit-based advancement offers rich lessons both for one another and for the rest of the world.

About the Author

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and the first director of Harvard's Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.

Michael Szonyi is Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.