Concept
Human development (economics)
Overview
concept in economics regarding the variation of material conditions among people
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And this industrial progress, by aiding future production, opens the way for further growth of population, which reacts as before. Presently, under the same stimuli, new occupations arise. Competing workers, severally aiming to produce improved articles, occasionally discover better processes or better materials.
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
Close in meaning to Human development; the term itself is not named.
As regards the effects upon the material condition of the wages-receiving class, since it seems clear that capital increases faster than improvements, and probably faster even than population, it follows that in countries where the laboring-classes are evidently growing in intelligence, they gain in wages with the progress of society. Such certainly seems to be the teaching of Mr. Giffen’s late studies (see Book IV…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Close in meaning to Human development; the term itself is not named.
The whole of this process which takes the form of a succession of processes, constitutes circulation. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF COMMODITIES. The analysis of commodities according to their twofold aspect of use-value and exchange value by which the former is reduced to work or deliberate productive activity; and the latter, to labor time or homogeneous social labor, is the result of a century and a half…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Philosophers who discussed Human development (economics)
Related ideas
- Karl Marx
- Adam Smith
- Latin America
- Caribbean
- East Asia
- Social relation
- South Asia
- UNESCO
- Well-being
- Abraham Maslow
- Aristotle
- United Nations
- Martha Nussbaum
- Welfare economics
- Amartya Sen
- Central Europe
- Catholic Church
- Education
- Development ethics
Place in the tradition
Part of Social democracy.
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