Research Catalog

Title

Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth, development, and social progress / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald.

Author

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Greenwald, Bruce C., 1946-

Description

xviii, 406 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader's Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work's central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text's central thesis{u2014}that every policy affects learning{u2014}is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series

Uniform Title

Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Social learning
• Information society
• Progress
• Information society
• Social learning
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Fortschritt
• Innovation
• Globalisierung
• Kritik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I: Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress: Basic Concepts and Analysis -- 1. The learning revolution -- 2. On the importance of learning -- 3. a learning economy -- 4. Creating a learning firm and a learning environment -- 5. Market structure, welfare, and learning -- 6. The welfare economics of Schumpeterian competition -- 7. Learning in a closed economy -- 8. The Infant-Economy argument for protection: trade policy in a learning environment -- -- Pt. II: Policies for a Learning Society -- 9. The role of industrial and trade policy in creating a learning society -- 10. Financial policy and creating a learning society -- 11. Macroeconomic and investment policies for a learning society -- 12. Intellectual property -- 13. Social transformation and the creation of a learning society -- 14. Concluding remarks

ISBN

• 9780231175494
• 0231175493

LCCN

^^2015002293

OCLC

• 903248099
• SCSB-11318068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library