Status Updates From The Death of Human Capital?...

Myth of the Self-Made Individual

Human Capital Accounting, interesting

based on social class, gender, ethnicity, or race inequalities as a major target for policy intervention

The relationship between individuals, education, and employment in an era of twentieth-century industrialism is no longer appropriate in an age of machine intelligence

Job Scarcity is not Labor Scarcity

The orthodox approach treats investment in education and training as if it is a form of capital

The Age of International Labor Migration, adding more complexity

This has a striking resemblance to the massive increase in college diplomas and degrees that bear little relationship to the requirements of the economy but contributed to the myth that we had entered the “age of human capital"

Credential Inflation: Devaluing Credentials as a Currency of Opportunity

revisionist history of human capital as a way of understanding the changing relationship between education, jobs, and rewards. These changes, at least in part, reflect power relations and the relative ability of different social groups to mobilize resources to win. Writing of the former Soviet Union, Daniel Bell described it as an “unjust meritocracy,” what Thomas Jefferson called an “artificial aristocracy"

The rise of women

central arguments in orthodox theory that more investment in education leads to higher earnings and that the value of human capital increases over time as societies become more technologically advanced.

Learning is not earning

Many theories about the social and economic world have a short life cycle.
Things change unexpectedly, such as the Wall Street Crash, the collapse of
the Soviet Union, Great Recession or more recently a global pandemic.

Adam Smith: Human as expensive machine