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human capital

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Summary

human capital is an economic concept[1]. It draws 2,646 Wikipedia views per month (economic concept category, ranking #32 of 213).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: un-word of the year[3]
  • Influenced by: Rudolf Goldscheid[4]
  • Instance of: intangible asset[5]
  • Subclass of: capital[6], human resources[7]
  • Commons category: Human capital[8]
  • Partially coincident with: human material[9]
  • Different from: human resources[10]
  • Significant person: Gary Becker[11], Jacob Mincer[12], Theodore Schultz[13]
  • Named by: Irving Fisher[14]
  • P14541: 3OhKoq[15]

Why It Matters

human capital has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

FAQs

What awards did human capital receive?

Honors received include un-word of the year[3].

Related Entities

business Gary S. Becker Irving Fisher Michael Hanegan Pallavi Tyagi Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio Theodore Schultz Walter G. Park

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . unwortdesjahres.net. Retrieved . unwortdesjahres.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · TherasTaneel · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ba', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'e
    Lex id → humankapital
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: humankapital"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → human-capital
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: human-capital, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933480|human capital (#289933480)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3OhKoq
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005490-lidsky-kapital
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005490-lidsky-kapital, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named by → Irving Fisher
    Instance of → —
    Different from → human resources
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 4681450
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 9328, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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