The human capital theory is one of the most significant scientific and practical achievements in the history of the economic thought in the twentieth century. The presented work shows an attempt to retrace and critically estimate the evolution of this doctrine from its genesis in the studies of...

The study of the human capital in the higher education and science is a result of their changed role and significance following the development of new realities of 21st century – knowledge economy, innovation economy, information society, education economy. The latter are treated as a premise...