Jo talks on ‘brutal billionaires’ and merit at Winchester

Dr Jo Littler from CCI travelled to the University of Winchester this week, where she gave a paper entitled ‘Brutal billionaires and the cultural reconstruction of merit’. The paper drew on her forthcoming book Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility, which is due to be published by Routledge in August. After the talk there was a lively cross-departmental discussion and lots of interesting questions.