The resurgence of interest in the determinants of economic growth through the vehicle of endogenous growth theory has brought with it new understanding of what underlies long term economic prosperity. In particular, the role of human capital as an important driver of technological change, and hence development, has emerged as a key factor.
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Technology, Human Capital, Growth and Institutional Development
Johannes Fedderke
The Higher the Better? A Comparative Analysis of Sociodemographic Characteristics and Human Capital of German Federal Government Members
Katrin Scharfenkamp and Alexander Dilger
Are the highest politicians better qualified than their peers? In this article, we analyze differences between chancellors, vice chancellors, and ministers of the inner or residual cabinets of the German federal governments between 1949 and 2009 with respect to their social backgrounds and educational, economic, as well as political human capital. Different statistical methods reveal no clear primacy of chancellors or vice chancellors over other members of government. Interestingly, inner cabinets have higher qualifications than residual cabinets, as well as partly chancellors and vice chancellors.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
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- Research Article
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- 21–38 (17 total)
The Current Crisis
Initial Reflections
Steven Lukes
This is one of a set of three essays, exploring the current crisis in a Durkheimian perspective, and brought together with the first English translation of Durkheim’s own commentary on a world in upheaval, ‘The Politics of the Future’ (1917). In the opening essay, Steven Lukes suggests that a way to begin to reflect on the nature and long-term repercussions of the crisis is through Durkheim’s account of anomie. In the following essay, Mike Gane is concerned with an underlying paradox in which neo-liberalism is in practice a form of socialism and statism. In general, it reproduces the malaise that Durkheim analysed as a mass of individuals under the management of an overcentralized state, and in the absence of an effective democratic network of intermediate groups. In particular, it relies on a technique of power that involves a corrupted form of what Caillois analysed as the game, and that controls and manipulates the individuals constituting ‘human capital’ through a system of bureaucratically regulated game-like competitions. In the final essay, Edward Tiryakian asks ‘which crisis?’ Beyond the financial and economic upheavals, there is a wider, systemic, moral anomie. This shows up in various ways in trends, throughout western societies, in family life, education and citizenship – key interlinking institutions of the social fabric.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2009
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- Research Article
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- 15–19 (5 total)
El otro lado
Local Ends and Development in a Q'eqchi' Maya Community
Avery Dickins
In the small Q'eqchi' Maya village of Muqb'ilha', locals refer to the newly developed tourism complex as el otro lado (the other side), in contrast to the 'lived side' where the community resides. While the Candelaria River literally divides the homes of the community's families from the visitor center, the reference goes beyond a physical distinction. The tourism center provides a window to the world beyond this remote community as residents who participate in the enterprise gain economic, social, and human capital through their interaction with outsiders. The Chisec region of Guatemala where Muqb'ilha' is located has recently experienced a boom in NGO activity. This article explores the interaction between indigenous communities and international NGOs, highlighting ways in which local actors use development projects and conservation measures toward their own ends.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2007
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- Research Article
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- 167–184 (18 total)
Introduction
(De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference
Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Caroline E. Schuster
Abstract
Although kinship studies have traditionally focused on ‘solidarity’ and ‘mutuality’, dis-alignment, exclusion, and difference are equally crucial foci for analysis. In this introduction, we explore articulations of mutuality and difference through the lens of materiality, particularly the matter of politics and value and the semiotics of material life. We suggest that non-mutuality and exclusion are especially apparent in contexts where kinship intersects with the consolidation of economic and human capital. We then draw attention to the ways in which material signs are productive forces of relatedness in day-to-day interactions between humans, non-humans, and other material things. By examining the gaps and fissures within kinship through the lens of material practice, the contributors to this special section uncover new opportunities for critical engagement with theories of difference, semiotics, and value.
Young Workers and the Labor Market Policies of Renzi’s Government
Patrik Vesan
This chapter analyzes some of the major labor reforms implemented by the Renzi government in 2015 in relation to youth employment, with reference to the Jobs Act. The strategy pursued by the executive has been to concentrate on combating the segmentation of the labor market by liberalizing individual and collective dismissals and by introducing a new type of contract, which offers a generous incentive for new permanent hires. The main goal of this strategy is to decrease the divisions between insiders and outsiders in the hope that this measure will encourage employers to stabilize workers, especially the younger ones, and invest in the development of human capital. Such a strategy, however, rests on weak foundations, which might call into question its effectiveness and with it the stability of Renzi’s leadership.
In Italian Politics
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- 01 Sep 2016
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- Research Article
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- 191–208 (18 total)
The Academic Reserve
Israel's Fast Track to High-Tech Success
Gil Baram and Isaac Ben-Israel
track and its role in the development of the Israeli high-tech ecosystem, we need to look at the early days of Israel to see how government activities and direct investment in human capital helped shape the country's current success. Even before the
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 75–91 (17 total)
Children, reproductive labor, and intergenerational solidarity
Comment on Newberry and Rosen
Kate Cairns
leftover produce from a youth-run farmers’ market, or providing emotional support to mothers during times of stress. These young people were not only engaged in the production of human capital for future value extraction but also key contributors to
Intellectual endogamy in the university
The neoliberal regulation of academic work
Ana Luisa Muñoz-García
: Chile and the advancement of the human capital path Chile, with a population of seventeen million, has expanded its higher education system over the past two decades ( CNED 2015 ). The expansion of student enrolment and internationalisation of the
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 24–43 (20 total)
A politicized ecology of resilience
Redistributive land reform and distributive justice in the COVID-19 pandemic
Jonathan DeVore
human capital, or the knowledge, skills, and habits necessary to transform children into reliable wage laborers. James Ferguson (2015) is critical of human capital approaches and identifies a competing theory of distributive justice in the “rightful