Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of the Center for the Study of Private Law. His writing can be found in a wide range of publications, including Science, The American Economic Review and The Yale Law Journal. Markovits’s current book, “The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class and Devours the Elite” (Penguin), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction.
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