Stiglitz / Greenwald Creating a Learning Society

A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-52554-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

To understand how countries grow and develop, it is essential to know how they learn and become more productive and what government can do to promote learning. In Creating a Learning Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald cast light on the significance of this insight for economic theory and policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Greenwald, Bruce

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aghion, Philippe

Arrow, Kenneth

Solow, Robert

Woodford, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments for the Series
Acknowledgments for the First Arrow Lecture
Introduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
Part 1: Creating a Learning Society: A New Paradigm for Development and Social Progress: Basic Concepts
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
Part 2: Analytics
7. Learning in a Closed Economy—the Basic Model
8. A Two-Period, N-Good Model with Endogenous Labor Supply
9. Learning with Monopolistic Competition
10. Long-Term Growth and Innovation
11. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment
Part 3: Policies for a Learning Society
12. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society
13. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society
14. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society
15. Intellectual Property
16. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society
17. Concluding Remarks
Part 4: Commentary and Afterword
18. Introductory Remarks for the First Annual Arrow Lecture, by Michael Woodford
19. Further Considerations, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
20. Commentary: The Case for Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion
21. Commentary, by Robert Solow
22. Commentary, by Kenneth Arrow
Afterword: Rethinking Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion
Notes
References
Notes on Contributors
Index

Leseproben

Read the first chapter, "The Learning Revolution":

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a member and former chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He was the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He served on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and then joined the World Bank as chief economist and senior vice president. His most recent book is The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

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 and Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy Portfolio.