As a general rule the abstractions of macro-economics are concerned with human resources this way - as it characterizes no mechanisms to represent alternative or ingenuity.

For this reason one interpretation is that “firm-specific human capital” as described in macro-economics is the modern and proper definition of “human resources” - and that this is insufficient to represent the contributions of “human resources” in any modern concept of political economy.

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