Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was considered by the Nobel committee to be his most noteworthy contribution to economics.
This expanded edition includes four new chapters, covering recent ideas about human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labor, economic considerations within the family, and inequality in earnings.
"Critics have charged that Mr. Becker's style of thinking reduces humans to economic entities. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Becker gives people credit for having the power to reason and seek out their own best destiny."—Wall Street Journal
发表于2024-11-21
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评分作者在另一本书里曾提到,此书的副标题是由于“人力资本”的说法过于标新立异,为防风险才添加的,他早已不记得。现人习以为常的概念,需前人费尽心思的奠基。无论经济学走向何方,它终究是在进步的。
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评分这是贝克早期的著作。这里面很多概念或创见都成为现实,如贝克认为教育是一种人力资本投资,而且投资越早回报越多。教育的投资回报如今是美国的热门话题(或者一直都是)。另外一些见解是公司在萧条期间会先裁掉边缘雇工,然后才慢慢裁到核心雇工。这本书里面的数学(公式)运用并不多,大部分都在附录里,属可读可不读内容。而其余部分,贝克则都用文字解释了。这本书虽是写给经济学家的,但(具有一定知识的)普通读者也可以理解。最后,推荐他的另一本专著-"A Treatise on the Family"。
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