DESIGNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN POTENTIAL CONCEPT

Abstract

The article deals with theoretical and methodological preconditions of designing the concept of human capital in economics and historic stages of its transformation into the concept of human potential in conditions of revising the role of man in economy of state from one of the production means to the basis of economic prosperity of the country. The author sums up the fundamental definitions of such notions as 'human capital' and 'human potential', shows the major problems connected with the definition of the latter. She analyzes the most widely spread present approaches to study of this category and demonstrates its place in the social and economic development of the country.

Keywords

• индивид
• социализация
• потребности
• мотивация
• экономическое благополучие
• государственная политика