Priorities for Improving Distance Education and Human Capital in Azerbaijan Public Administration

Literature Review: Human Capital And Distance Education

As the concept of human capital has aroused great interest among scientists, its study has grown over time. In studying the causes of the development of national wealth, A. Smith formulated the following thesis: labour is the basis of values ​​and wealth. This means that man was seen as a source of social wealth and a source of social wealth and as a part of it. He regarded the quality of production as the main driving force of progress in free competition, while he regarded the cost of human investment as a factor in the development of production and the reconciliation of that investment with income. His conclusions about “investment in man” later became the main idea theory. The American scientist Phillip classified human capital as part of intellectual capital (Phillips, 2005). Human capital, on the one hand, includes the level of achievement of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, commitment, behaviors and values ​​of individuals in society in connection with the production process; on the other hand, it is a concept that expresses physical and mental fitness or strength (Kahya et al., 2015).