Adrian Wooldridge is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Adrian was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College. Before joining Bloomberg, Adrian worked at The Economist for over 20 years. He is the author of several books, including Capitalism in America: A History, co-authored with Alan Greenspan, and, most recently, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World. You can find him on Twitter here.
Time stamps:
00:00 Introduction & news
03:56 Interview start: definition of meritocracy
05:30 Attacks on meritocracy
11:23 Aristocracy vs. meritocracy
15:30 Meriocracy & genetics
21:39 History & social mobility
24:55 Origin of meritocracy
34:12 Criticism of meritocracy
39:20 How to increase social mobility
48:46 How to deal with group differences and discrimination
59:36 Embryo selection & meritocracy
01:11:55 Closing remarks & Short questions
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The Aristocracy of Talent | Adrian Wooldridge