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Human Capital and Economic Development

Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang, Editors
Western Michigan University

 

Six essays are presented that explore human capital and its relationship to issues such as demographics, population growth, families, workplace training and economic progress.

Topics

  1. The Birth Dearth, Aging and the Economy: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?- Richard A. Easterlin, University of Southern California
  2. Can there Be Too Much Human Capital? Is there a World Population Problem? - D. Gale Johnson, University of Chicago
  3. Human Capital Accumulation, the Family and Economic Development - Mark R. Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania
  4. Can the U.S. System of Workplace Training Survive Global Competition? - Peter B. Doeringer, Boston University
  5. Workplace Training in the United States: Is It Underproduced? - Ann P. Bartel, Columbia University
  6. The Very Long-Term Effect of Human Capital on Human Progress - Julian L. Simon, University of Maryland

164 pp. 1994
$40 cloth ISBN 0-88099-148-8 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-148-3
$16 paper ISBN 0-88099-147-X / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-147-6.

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