Efficiency

Related keyterms: "aristocracy of talent" (vs. landed or hereditary elites), competitiveness, cult of efficiency, cult of the businessman, discipline, efficiency engineer, expertise, hierarchy, national efficiency, organization, professionalism, scientific management (vs. national decline), reform (military, social), specialization, standardization, technocrats (vs. a "nation of amateurs"), trained intelligence, waste management

Related figures: Lloyd George (1863-1945), Earl of Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose: 1847-1929), Arnold White (1848-1925)

Also see: Eugenics, Modernization, Social Darwinism