Talk:Instructional capital

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there is about 15% overlap with the intellectual capital article which is expected since intellectual *is* instructional plus individual plus some small bit of social (maybe).

The articles are about radically different concerns, and I think it's quite obvious that instructional capital, when differentiated from other subtypes of human capital, forces one to break off individual and social types no matter what field you're in. This is probably the most solid of the articles that now exist on subtypes of capital, and certainly has the best examples. I think we should start here and be sure we agree with this one before we hack any of the others, since the article is obviously a form of instructional capital itself... it will guide how we see the other articles.

I tried to mention the dotcom boom issue here but not make a political issue of it - unlike intellectual capital where all the ugly politics belongs... in parallel with intellectual property law which will be a list of ugly politics sitting on top of nice clean patent, copyright, and trademark articles.

The wikipedia article DB itself is an example of instructional capital, so that's now up front. This as opposed to the wikipedia.com project or its users or contributors... language around this could be clarified so I'd appreciate someone else trying that who has more of a history with the project. I believe classifying the entire wikipedia, users and all, as a work of intellectual capital would cross the line into political bias. Although, there does seem to be some capital but not social value in this... process of gabbing things out... nitpicking... etc.

[edit] References, please!

I've done a search around for information on instructional capital. It is a phrase that is in use, but I can find no evidence whatsoever to back up what is said in this article. All the similar mentions of intructional capital I can find on the internet are by the same person, Craig Hubley. He is not an economics professional, but rather someone who likes to post his ideas up on the internet. One of the references in the article (Harding) includes a small citation of Hubley; other reference given in the article doesn't mention instructional capital at all.

Unless the information can be backed up by a source other than Craig Hubley, it needs to go; an encyclopedia is not the place for articles that describe the ideas of one individual, where that individual is not well known.

Enchanter 10:34, May 28, 2004 (UTC)