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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809609203321
• Autore: Stiglitz Joseph E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-231-54062-0
• Edizione: [Reader's edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Collana: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
• Disciplina: 303.3/2 |2 23
• Soggetti: Social learning; Information society; Progress
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.