The Meritocracy Trap - An Ethics Institute colloquy with Dr. Richard Gottschall

[Cindy McMurray]

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, noon – 1 p.m.

By Zoom: https://bit.ly/3ehaZTu

Rich Gottschall, associate professor of marketing and entrepreneurship and
a past Institute Fellow, leads a conversation about the impact of
meritocratic values on opportunity, income, and wealth in the U.S. This
colloquy is anchored by the 2019 book by Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy
Trap. During his residency in the Ethics Institute, Rich focused his
studies on social mobility and entrepreneurial opportunity through the lens
of abundance. Rich’s research on human capital therefore has been closely
related to central concepts of merit. While there are many topical
critiques of wealth inequality, Markovits examines the ways in which
education, especially the higher-education system, contributes to
increasing economic stratification.

For additional background on Markovits’s book, watch the 2020 PBS interview
of Markovits:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/yale-law-professor-meritocracy-doesnt-work/.
You can also read the 2019 NewYork Times review: The Meritocrat Who Wants
to Unwind the Meritocracy - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/arts/meritocracy-trap-daniel-markovits.html>
and the 2019 article in The Atlantic:  Meritocracy Harms Everyone - The
Atlantic
<https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/>
.

If you missed any of the first three colloquies of the spring 2021
semester, you can view the recordings at
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwtolGsTSHTKeXEUsVJHK3GTjtPvEpx7, along
with all of the fall 2020 colloquies and capsule conversations from spring,
summer, and fall 2020.

For further information about Ethics Institute colloquies, contact Dr.
Jonathan Slater, director. The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is
generously supported by gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.
Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to the entire SUNY Plattsburgh
community.
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