Camilla Boisen is a historian of political thought. She is Senior Lecturer of Writing and Associate Dean of Curricular Academic Planning for the Arts & Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi.Matthew C. Murray is the Assistant Director for Growthpolicy and Program Support at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Matt runs the interdisciplinary research portal, Growthpolicy, supports the work of M-RCBG’s other 18 programs, has 3 previous published titles along with academic articles and taught Philosophy at Providence College for a decade in the fields of Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Philosophy

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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Why interrogate the Concept of Merit.- Chapter 2: Production and Politique: Establishing Academic Production as Political.- Chapter 3: Merit as Moral: Merit as Moral: Justifications for Applications of Power.- Chapter 4: The Merit Mythology: Merit as Natural Selection.- Chapter 5: Accepting Dissent, Resistance and Error.- Chapter 6: Relegating the Rule of Merit and Escaping ‘Academic Fingertrap’.

Camilla Boisen is a historian of political thought. She is Senior Lecturer of Writing and Associate Dean of Curricular Academic Planning for the Arts & Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi.Matthew C. Murray is the Assistant Director for Growthpolicy and Program Support at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Matt runs the interdisciplinary research portal, Growthpolicy, supports the work of M-RCBG’s other 18 programs, has 3 previous published titles along with academic articles and taught Philosophy at Providence College for a decade in the fields of Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Philosophy

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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Why interrogate the Concept of Merit.- Chapter 2: Production and Politique: Establishing Academic Production as Political.- Chapter 3: Merit as Moral: Merit as Moral: Justifications for Applications of Power.- Chapter 4: The Merit Mythology: Merit as Natural Selection.- Chapter 5: Accepting Dissent, Resistance and Error.- Chapter 6: Relegating the Rule of Merit and Escaping ‘Academic Fingertrap’.

Camilla Boisen is a historian of political thought. She is Senior Lecturer of Writing and Associate Dean of Curricular Academic Planning for the Arts & Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi.Matthew C. Murray is the Assistant Director for Growthpolicy and Program Support at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Matt runs the interdisciplinary research portal, Growthpolicy, supports the work of M-RCBG’s other 18 programs, has 3 previous published titles along with academic articles and taught Philosophy at Providence College for a decade in the fields of Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Philosophy

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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Why interrogate the Concept of Merit.- Chapter 2: Production and Politique: Establishing Academic Production as Political.- Chapter 3: Merit as Moral: Merit as Moral: Justifications for Applications of Power.- Chapter 4: The Merit Mythology: Merit as Natural Selection.- Chapter 5: Accepting Dissent, Resistance and Error.- Chapter 6: Relegating the Rule of Merit and Escaping ‘Academic Fingertrap’.