This article reviews definitions of'Human Capital Theory'by leading economists and HRD
scholars. The origin of the term'capital'is explained, and the link between Human Capital …

The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review.
Regional Studies. This paper reviews the literature on high human capital interregional …

" I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing
about economic geography, without being aware of it," begins Paul Krugman in the readable …

Growth in this model is driven by technological change that arises from intentional
investment decisions made by profit-maximizing agents. The distinguishing feature of the …

No subject with a foot in both the academic and public domains like macroeconomics
remains unchanged for long. The search for improved explanations, and the challenge of …

This paper develops a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become
differentiated into an industrialized" core" and an agricultural" periphery." In order to realize …

Empirical findings for a panel of around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 strongly support
the general notion of conditional convergence. For a given starting level of real per capita …

This paper describes two strands of work that converged under the heading of 'endogenous
growth.'One strand, which is primarily empirical, asks whether there is a general tendency …

This pioneering volume proposes a compelling new theory of how regions have sustained
their economic viability in the era of multinational corporations. Unlike traditional …

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on
research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such …