--- description: Markovits is Guido Calabresi professor of law at Yale Law School and the author of The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, published by Penguin Press title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Daniel Markovits ## Daniel Markovits Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Markovits is Guido Calabresi professor of law at Yale Law School and the author of [The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, published by Penguin Press](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/548174/the-meritocracy-trap-by-daniel-markovits/9780735221994) ## Daniel Markovits Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Apr 30, 2021 ### [The Pandemic Made the Top 1% Richer. Why We Need Wealth Tax](https://time.com/5974430/wealth-tax-covid-19/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 12, 2019 ### [American Universities Must Choose: Do They Want to Be Equal or Elite?](https://time.com/5676174/universities-equality-eliteness/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/daniel-markovits/","name":"Daniel Markovits"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/daniel-markovits/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/daniel-markovits/"},"name":"Daniel Markovits","jobTitle":null,"description":"Markovits is Guido Calabresi professor of law at Yale Law School and the author of The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, published by Penguin Press","url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-markovits/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```