Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Carlos Joly — Why We Should Stop Talking About ‘Human Capital’


Capital goods depreciates with age and use. Financial capital is eroded by inflation and is subject to risk. 

Human learning and expertise increase with age and experience.

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Why We Should Stop Talking About ‘Human Capital’
Carlos Joly

3 comments:

NeilW said...

One of the failings of accounting is that it simply cannot deal effectively with human assets - and therefore by extension any common goods whether that is a clean environment, public ownership of intellectual property or public provision of infrastructure.

Matt Franko said...

Accounting is good for the material/flesh/secular issues Neil the other things you bring in there are non-secular issues and youre right financial accounting is not the tool to use there...

Tom Hickey said...

Accounting and finance are central because capitalism, the objective of which is profit. M-C-M'

It's about the munnie.