Creating a Learning Society

A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition
Reader's Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-231-17549-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stiglitz, Joseph E

Greenwald, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Reader's EditionPreface to the Original EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress: Basic Concepts and Analysis1. The Learning Revolution2. On the Importance of Learning3. A Learning Economy4. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment5. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning6. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition7. Learning in a Closed Economy8. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning EnvironmentPart II. Policies for a Learning Society9. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society10. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society11. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society12. Intellectual Property13. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society14. Concluding RemarksNotesReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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).