Sentences with word «meritocrat»

A rapidly growing economy (and government bureaucracy) absorbed the growing cohort of new meritocrats.

Political activism in areas of sex and gender does not threaten the priorities of liberal elites, which are a combination of a selfish sense that meritocrats merit their rewards and a technocratic concern about efficiency.

Fisman and his colleagues rightly assume that these students represent the new liberal meritocrats, the people likely to occupy important positions in government, exercise influence over public policy, and set the tone for establishment institutions.

... The kind of arrogance, vanity and inflamed self - esteem that flatters the imagination and corrupts the spirit of the successful meritocrat needs to be checked and humbled.

, I think David is a combination of a strong meritocrat and a relational egalitarian (as are Reeves and Collins, I think).

The interests of men and boys have been ever more assaulted in the UK for more than 30 years - a trend accelerating after Margaret Thatcher, a true meritocrat, resigned as prime minister in 1990.

When we get rid of those laws, it will be because we've adopted a different view of the common good, one that is agnostic about what it means to live an honorable and dignified life (even as the meritocrats impose a substantive view on their kids).

As has been the case the rest of the cultural revolution of the last fifty years, the meritocrats will use their new freedom wisely, while the weakest and most vulnerable members of society won't.

The History of ICOs A more technologically nuanced alternative to the historically unchallenged Initial Public Offering (IPO), ICO is the brainchild of the meritocrats rather than the aristocrats.