Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2022
The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if … they did not use the phrase. The term “human capital,” seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting … to 2019, the use of human capital among NBER books increased from 5% to 25%, whereas all economics books changed from 3 …