Peoplepower: elements of human resource policy

Internationally renowned labor economist Herbert S. Parnes distills his three decades of distinguished teaching and research experience in Peoplepower. This refreshingly personal introductory survey of the field of human resource policy is designed especially for persons with little or no prior exposure to economics. Parnes divides human resource policy into five major areas-develop ment, allocation, conservation, utilization, and full employment promotion. Within this framework he provides a cogent introduction to the concepts of human resources, the major social prob lems relating to human resources, and the principal public human resource programs. Parnes then intensively explores the nature and operation of labor markets and, in particular, the usefulness of "human capital" theory for social investment decision.
Theoretically sound, meticulously organized, and rigorous in its scholarship, Peoplepower is a premier human re source policy text for students and edu ators in the fields of public policy and management.