Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--And More Unequal

by Brink Lindsey

Book Overview

Why the rich are getting smarter while the poor are being left behind

What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691157324
• ISBN13: 9780691157320
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.6"