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The Whys and Wherefores of Human Resources

In: Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective

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  • J. L. Nicholson

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The very phrase, ‘human resources’, has gradually crept into use in recent years without anyone having consciously decided that it describes an identifiable economic category which can serve as a useful tool in economic analysis or economic prescription. Like the popular shoulder-bags which are used by different people for a wide variety of purposes, it does not have a precisely definable and universally recognised function. It can carry different connotations, depending partly on the subject matter under discussion, and partly on the views and preferences both of the user and of his audience at the time. The phrase does not seem to be either particularly fashionable or particularly unfashionable with any one school of thought. Nor is it clear exactly where or when it crept into use, or what its relationship is to the general development of economic thought. In short, its pedigree is somewhat obscure.

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  • J. L. Nicholson, 1983. "The Whys and Wherefores of Human Resources," International Economic Association Series, in: Paul Streeten & Harry Maier (ed.), Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective, chapter 9, pages 198-208, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-17203-0_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17203-0_9
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