Open AccessThe Political Economy of Human Capital
Author(s) -
Nancy Folbre
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
review of radical political economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.46
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1552-8502
pISSN - 0486-6134
DOI - 10.1177/0486613412440240
Subject(s) - human capital , economics , capital (architecture) , affect (linguistics) , identity (music) , distribution (mathematics) , politics , neoclassical economics , class (philosophy) , economic system , sociology , market economy , political science , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , archaeology , communication , acoustics , law , history , artificial intelligence , computer science
In this paper I develop a critique of both standard neoclassical and standard Marxian conceptualizations of human capital that illustrates an important hypothesis of feminist political economy: collective conflicts based on class, gender, and age, as well as other dimensions of collective identity, affect the distribution of the costs of developing human capital. JEL codes: B50; E11; E24
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