Meritocracy in the Political and Economic Spheres

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ID4079032
AutoresBenjamin Sachs‐cobbe (0000-0002-2307-7620, University of St Andrews, autor de correspondencia), Alexander Douglas (0000-0001-9486-8991, University of St Andrews)
Año2024
Volumen19
Número1
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12955
OpenAlexW4390142076
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas38

The idea that our economic institutions should be designed meritocratically is back as a hot topic in western academic circles. At the same time political meritocracy is once again a subject of philosophical discussion, with some Western philosophers embracing epistocracy and Confucianism being revived among Eastern philosophers. This survey has the ambition, first, of putting differing strands of this literature into dialogue with each other: the economic with the political, and the Western with the Eastern. Second, we seek here to impose order on the debates over meritocracy by carefully separating out the four steps that must be traversed on the journey to a meritocratic conclusion. Third we want to promote a more productive debate moving forward by cleanly pulling apart three kinds of purported merit base

Economics · Epistemology · Meritocracy · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence