Human Capitalism (eBook)

How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal

Brink Lindsey (Autor)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4621-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Brink Lindsey is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a consultant for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is the author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture (Collins) and Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (Wiley).

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Why the rich are getting smarter while the poor are being left behindWhat 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 "e;human capital"e;-reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer-it is also making them smarter. As the economy makes ever-greater demands on their minds, the successful are making ever-greater investments in education and other ways of increasing their human capital, expanding their cognitive skills and leading them to still higher levels of success. But unfortunately, even as the rich are securely riding this virtuous cycle, the poor are trapped in a vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge and skills. In this brief, clear, and forthright eBook original, Lindsey shows how economic growth is creating unprecedented levels of human capital-and suggests how the huge benefits of this development can be spread beyond those who are already enjoying its rewards.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2013
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Adoption • Adult • African Americans • americans • Bryan Caplan • Capability • Capitalism • Career • child care • Classroom • Cognitive skill • Competition • Cultural Capital • culture gap • David Autor • developed country • disadvantage • disadvantaged • Division of Labour • Early childhood intervention • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • economic interventionism • economist • economy • Education • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Finding • fluency • Globalization • Gratitude • Heritability • Household • Human Capital • Hunter-Gatherer • Incentive • income • income distribution • industrialisation • Institution • James Heckman • Julian Sanchez (writer) • Know-how • Knowledge Worker • Lifestyle (sociology) • Motivation • Nuclear family • obstacle • Occupational licensing • parenting • parenting styles • Peer Group • Perverse incentive • Poverty • Princeton University Press • Public Policy • Regulatory reform • Reihan Salam • Requirement • school district • sibling • Skill • Social capital • Social Class • Social Complexity • Social Environment • Social Exclusion • Social mobility • social Progress • Social Science • social security disability insurance • Social Status • Society • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • standard of living • State of affairs (sociology) • student loan • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • Tax • Technology • The Bell Curve • time horizon • Trade-off • Tuition payments • underclass • Unemployment • Unintended Consequences • vocabulary • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare reform • wide variety • Workforce • workplace • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4621-8 / 1400846218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4621-4 / 9781400846214