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INVESTMENT IN HUMANS, TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFUSION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Abstract
Most economic theorists have embraced the principle that certain kinds of education—the three R's, vocational training, and higher education—equip a man to perform certain jobs or functions, or enable a man to perform a given function more effectively. The principle seems a sound one. Underlying it, perhaps, is the theory that education enhances one's ability to receive, decode, and understand information, and that information processing and interpretation is important for performing or learning to perform many jobs. This chapter focuses on the economic growth theory, which has concentrated on the role of education as it relates to the completely routinized job. In its usual, rather general form, the theory postulates a production function which states how maximum current output depends upon the current services of tangible capital goods, the current number of men performing each of these jobs, the current educational attainments of each of these jobholders and time.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Phelps, E. S.
- Venue
- Studies in Macroeconomic Theory
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 133-139
- OpenAlex
- W1563358119
- Cited by
- 2,222
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.05
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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