Human Capital from Psychoanalytic Perspective

Human dimensions from Quranic perspective

Ever since the creation of mankind, there have been different and variable viewpoints about the aspects of the human being. Words such as "Body", "Psyche", "Soul" and "Spirit" have usually been employed regarding human by philosophers, religious scholars, physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists. Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Rhazes, Avicenna, Engle, and World Health Organization ha...

Intellectual Capital: A Human Resources Perspective

The purpose of this paper is to underscore the importance of intellectual capital, particularly at this time in terms of our current economic business environment. It is the opinion of the authors of this article that intellectual capital is “knowledge” and “experience” that directly contributes to a company’s bottom line, as well as directly contributing to an organization’s survivability and ...

Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective

We assess the consequences of increasing the marginal tax rate on U.S. top earners using a human capital model. We find that (1) the peak of the model Laffer curve occurs at a 52 percent top tax rate, (2) there is a formula featuring three elasticities that accurately predicts the top of the model Laffer curve and (3) standard empirical methods underestimate the long-run model earnings elastici...

A theoretical review of the concept of superego from the perspective of psychoanalytic approaches

The aim of this research was to investigate the concept of the superego from the perspective of psychoanalytic approaches, in particular the theory of Freud and Anna Freud and other theories of object relations (Klein and Bion) and the British Independent School (Fairbairn and Winnicott). Given the significant role of the pathological superego in psychological disorders, a better understanding ...

Body Dysmorphic disorder: A psychoanalytic perspective