The Tyranny of Merit

"The Tyranny of Merit" is the book of the year by Michael J. Sandel. 

With "The Tyranny of Merit" Michael J. Sandel questions the way our democracy works. A democracy of losers and winners. People begin to get more and more unsatisfied with the inequality. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump were just some of the consequences we will see as an increasing protest.

Michael J. Sandel encourages us to overcome polarized politics and rethink how we act around success and failure to overcome the crisis in our world. We need to stop the judgement of failure and the applause of success. To think of success as a kind of luck. To support a more ethical and solidary way of politics. 

Michael J. Sandel is the bestselling author of “Justice” and one of the most popular philosophers in the world. 

"The Tyranny of Merit" is chosen as “best book of the year 2020” by Guardian, Bloomberg, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement.