Glossary
Used to mean the educated, productive, innovative capacity of people to contribute to a modern economy.
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human capital
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...didn't have access to agriculture. And they didn't have that much human capital. They were entirely reliant on expatriates for expertise. And now that..."
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He says American hegemony made globalization into an extraction system that pulled the world's best talent to America.
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He says the world is changing because America is no longer the sole global hegemon and rising powers such as China and Russia now want to retain their talent and human capital.
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Jiang says Prussia became both creative and militarily successful because geographic vulnerability forced open cooperative competition, unity, education, and human-capital development.
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Jiang says the Soviet Union was enormous and imperial but still behind the West in manufacturing, technology, expertise, and human capital.
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Jiang argues that Jerusalem is better positioned than the GCC to host transnational capital because Israel has diaspora reach, elite intelligence capacity, nuclear deterrence, and concentrated human capital.
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"then immigrate to the United States, and then start my own company, get rich, and all that. And you know, some people have been..."
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"...being able to maintain their best and brightest, their talent, their human capital. And this is the way it should be. If you're born..."
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"Okay, I understand. Okay, so it seems to me, our disagreement is this, you think that they will relocate to the GCC, whereas I..."
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"...for, for, for that. Number four is that Israel has tremendous human capital. Israel is one of the most well -educated societies in the..."
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"...when I could just go to Israel, which has all this human capital, some of the best universities in the world are, are based..."
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"...Okay. But the problem with Saudi Arabia is the idea of human capital where it is not really a modern society in which people..."
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"...it. It's trying to grow terrorism it's trying to develop its human capital but it doesn't really work. Okay. So you're right in that..."
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"Where some states have an army, the Prussian army has a state. This is pretty insulting to Prussian culture. We've looked at many civilizations..."
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"Over time, because of competition from the more powerful states like France, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, these city -states were now forced to gel..."
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"...and Moscow have limited resources, which forces them to focus on human capital, on making sure the citizens were well -educated and the citizens..."
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"...much technology and expertise. Okay? It doesn't really have that much human capital. So the Soviet Union, it's a huge country. It's the world's..."
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"...didn't have access to agriculture. And they didn't have that much human capital. They were entirely reliant on expatriates for expertise. And now that..."
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