Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition

Joseph E. Stiglitz; Bruce Greenwald

Published by Columbia University Press 2015

Creating a Learning Society

A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald

In the series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/stig17549

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About this book

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.

A streamlined edition of the book that restored the role of government in promoting science and technology.

Author / Editor information

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton. His books include Making Globalization Work; The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future; The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What to Do About Them; and Fair Trade for All (with Andrew Charlton). In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.

Bruce C. Greenwald is Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School. He is director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing. His books include Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond; Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy Portfolio; Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics (with Joseph E. Stiglitz); and Globalization: n. The Irrational Fear that Someone in China Will Take Your Job (with Judd Kahn).

Reviews

[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.

Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge:
Praise for the original edition:

Profound and dazzling. The authors' analysis provides the foundations of an understanding of the progress and regress of nations. This is social science at its best.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface to the Reader’s Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface to the Original Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part one. Creating a Learning Society
Chapter one. The Learning Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter two. On the Importance of Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter three. A Learning Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter four. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter five. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter six. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter seven. Learning in a Closed Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter eight. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part two. Policies for a Learning Society
Chapter nine. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter ten. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Chapter eleven. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Chapter twelve. Intellectual Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Chapter thirteen. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Chapter fourteen. Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: Reader's Edition
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 432

eBook

Published: October 6, 2015
ISBN: 9780231540629