The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption
Phillip Brown, "The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption"
English | ISBN: 0190644303 | 2020 | 314 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0190644303 | 2020 | 314 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and Sin Yi Cheung argue that the human capital story is one of false promise: investing in learning isn't the road to higher earnings and national prosperity. Rather than abandoning human capital theory, however, the authors redefine human capital in an age of smart machines. They present a new human capital theory that rejects the view that automation and AI will result in the end of waged work, but see the fundamental problem as a lack of quality jobs offering interesting, worthwhile, and rewarding opportunities. A controversial challenge to the reigning ideology,
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