Creating a Learning Society : : A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition / / Bruce Greenwald, Joseph E. Stiglitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Stiglitz, Joseph E.,; Greenwald, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reader's Edition
• Language: English
• Series: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

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-that every policy affects learning-is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Reader's Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter one. The Learning Revolution -- Chapter two. On the Importance of Learning -- Chapter three. A Learning Economy -- Chapter four. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment -- Chapter five. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning -- Chapter six. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition -- Chapter seven. Learning in a Closed Economy -- Chapter eight. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment -- Part two. Policies for a Learning Society -- Chapter nine. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter ten. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter eleven. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society -- Chapter twelve. Intellectual Property -- Chapter thirteen. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society -- Chapter fourteen. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index