Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

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Am I part of the “lower-value human capital” brigade? Probably. We can’t all be high-value, and even if we think we are now, there is an artificial intelligence model is coming soon to seriously ...

Human capital is about the innate power workers have. It is about their knowledge, skills and insights, which can’t be sold or bought. Scottish economist Adam Smith was one of the first to recognize ...