This article retrospects this long evolutionary process of the thoughts on human capital and aimed at to offer a more broad historical background for studying human capital theory.

• 本文试图简要地考察古典与新古典经济学发展时期人力资本思想的孕育和发展过程，旨在为研究人力资本理论提供一种更广阔的历史背景与思想基础。