Share Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore hosted a virtual talk by Professor Michael Sandel, Harvard University, on Thursday (March 04), followed by an engaging discussion, on his new book, ‘The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of Common Good?’ The book is themed on ethics and diversity. The students of the two-year full time MBA programme – Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and the faculty, led by IIMB Director Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan enriched the discussion with their questions for Professor Sandel. Professor Michael J Sandel said: “We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that ‘you can make it if you try’.” And the consequence, he said, is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest. He explained that we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. He highlighted the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offered an alternative way of thinking about success – more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.