The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption

by Phillip Brown, Sin Yi Cheung, Hugh Lauder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190644311
• ISBN13: 9780190644314
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"