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lacuna

In addition, there are serious lacunae in German tax rec ords, owing in large part to the country’s turbulent history in the twentieth century

—p.325 Inequality of Labor Income (304) by Thomas Piketty
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[...] The institutionalized meritocratic system helps a few to gain access to positions they merit and from which they might otherwise be barred. But it allows many more to gain access to positions on the basis of ascribed status under the cover of having gained this access by achievement.

—p.133 Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization A Balance Sheet (113) by Immanuel Wallerstein
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the modern meritocracy discourse is invented

[...] there’s a very interesting discourse that I quote in my book in chapter 13 by the founder of Sciences Po, and so that was right after the expanse of the commune, which was very traumatic at least for the elite, a very traumatic experience of redistribution in France. And so he has a very clea…

Medium An interview with Thomas Piketty by Thomas Piketty
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