Discover how human capital theory boosts workforce productivity and gives businesses a competitive edge. Understand its development and significance in economics.

Explore how human capital boosts economic growth by enhancing skills and productivity. Learn about key drivers like consumer spending and business investment.

As part of our Marketplace Economic Pulse series, we examine the economy from a range of perspectives. Today, we hear from Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa In Oklahoma ...

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The Project on Prosperity and Development hosted a discussion with Richard Samans about his new book, HUMAN-CENTRED ECONOMICS: The Living Standards of Nations. Samans is Director of the International ...

Behavioral economics combines psychology and economics to understand human behavior. People often make decisions based on their emotions and act on impulse. However, the right nudges—monetary and ...

The Economics, Governance and Human Dimensions area of study emphasizes the human dimensions of resource systems involved in the processes of decision-making and action related to how coupled ...

In the #2 Human Capital Talk Federico Rossi, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, presented research on human capital and structural transformation. Federico Rossi introduced the ...

John Maynard Keynes, memorializing the death of his mentor Alfred Marshall a century ago, wrote that the “master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts…. He must be mathematician, ...

In studying economics, we are taught about scarcity—our time, energy, and basically, all financial and nonfinancial resources are not infinite. We sacrifice opportunity costs, typically the ...