Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-06-27
Jordan Peterson & Adrian Wooldridge: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #265
265. Meritocracy or Else | Dr. Adrian Wooldridge
Dr. Adrian Wooldridge is a political editor at The Economist and author of the new book ‘The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.
Jordan Peterson discussed The Aristocracy of Talent by Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind by Adrian Wooldridge, Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan and others, The Right Nation by John Micklethwait and others, and The Children by David Halberstam. Adrian Wooldridge discussed The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033 by Michael Dunlop Young and The inequality of man by J. B. S. Haldane.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Aristocracy of Talent
Discussed“um you've got these these books like michael sandel and and and markovic's book attacking the principle of meritocracy at the same time that you've got this sort of rather plutocratic uh ivy league system”
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Capitalism in America
Discussed“he's the author or co-author of ten books including the right nation conservative power in america with john mick mickelthwaite capitalism in america with ellen greenspan”
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The Right Nation
Discussed“he's the author or co-author of ten books including the right nation conservative power in america with john mick mickelthwaite capitalism in america with ellen greenspan”
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The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033
Discussed“so the person who invented the term meritocracy was michael young who wrote this wonderful magnificent sort of really clever clever book in 1958 called uh called the rise of the meritocracy”
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The Children
The Children by David Halberstam is a historical account that chronicles the young, ordinary college students who spearheaded the pivotal sit-in movement during the American civil rights struggle.
Discussed“and you talked about uh the best and the brightest and and one of the criticisms that that book leveled against the meritocracy was precisely one of intellectual pretension and arrogance”
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The inequality of man
Discussed“he wrote this this this book i have it on my shelves here in 1932 called the inequality of man”
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