The Death of Human Capital?
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bath
- Unit of assessment
- 23 - Education
- Output identifier
- 189989954
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190644314
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the first sustained critique of Human Capital Theory (HCT) that has dominated education and labour policy for fifty years. HCT predicts a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity. It has taken 9 years to write and follows from the research on graduate futures in The Global Auction (2010). Through a new empirical analysis, it shows HCT offers a false promise: for many, learning doesn’t equal earning. For HCT, labour markets are meritocratic, this analysis shows they are characterised by inequalities. An alternative roadmap for education and labour is developed, challenging the reigning ideology.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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