THE HUMAN-CAPITAL CENTURY AND AMERICAN LEADERSHIP: VIRTUES OF THE PAST

By Claudia Goldin. Journal Economic History, 2001

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The modern concept of the wealth of nations emerged by the early twentieth century. Capital embodied in people—human capital—mattered. The United States led all nations in mass postelementary education during the “human-capital century.” The American system of education was shaped by New World endowments and Republican ideology and was characterized by virtues including publicly funded mass education that was open and forgiving, academic yet practical, secular, gender neutral, and funded and controlled by small districts. The American educational template was a remarkable success, but recent educational concerns and policy have redefined some of its “virtues” as “vices.”

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Are There Civic Returns to Education (2003, background): “Furthermore, Goldin (2001) argues that such laws played a relatively minor role in the dramatic ‘‘high school movement’’ from 1910 to 1940, which suggests that these law changes were not part of substantive social changes that might have also influenced civic attitudes.”
• Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (2009, unknown): “In Prussia, those were merged in 1817 into the “Protestant Church in Prussia” (Evangelische Kirche in Preußen).”
• Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure (2004, background): “As argued by Goldin (2001), the emergence of the “new economy” in the early 20th century increased the demand for educated workers.”
• From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory (2004, unknown): “Goldin and Katz (2001) show that the rate of growth of educational productivity was 0.”
• General Education versus Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition (2010, background): “17 For example, see the early work on vocational training by Grasso and Shea (1979) and Meyer (1982).”