a new approach to growth, development, and social progress Stiglitz, Joseph E. creator author Greenwald, Bruce C. 1946- author. text bibliography nyu 2014 monographic eng

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xiv, 660 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 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. Introduction -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- References. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald ; with commentary and contributions from Philippe Aghion, Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert M. Solow, and Michael Wood Ford. Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-623) and index. Social learning Information society Progress HQ783 .S694 2014 303.3/2 9780231152143 2013047698 DLC 140109 20260515104703.0 17992702 eng