A Nobelist’s Controversial Approach To Solving Inequality, With James Heckman
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The Importance of Social and Emotional Skills in the Economy
The idea of 'human capital' used to be a vague term that kind of covered everything. Now it's much more specific and understanding exactly social and emotional skills, and how those skills were produced at home. So unfortunately, world banks and large scale organizations are only slow to get to this. The synthesis of biology, epidemiology, genetics, neuroscience, as well as economics, sociology, and other social sciences plays a huge role in trying to understand what we can do to shape and help people.
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