Meritocracy

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T. H. Marshall described meritocracy in his 1950 essay but he did not use the term meritocracy.

The term meritocracy first appeared in a 1958 novel by an English socialist Michael Young. T. H. Marshall (1992) Citizenship and Social Class. In Citizenship and Social Class. T. H. Marshall and Tom Bottomore. London: Plutobooks. Michael Young (1958) The rise of the meritocracy. UK: Thames and Hudson.

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