Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series)

Creating a Learning Society Google Preview ShareShare on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedInEmail this to someone Pub Date: October 2015 ISBN: 9780231175494 432 Pages Format: Paperback List Price: $24.95£18.95 Add to Cart Pub Date: October 2015 ISBN: 9780231540629 432 Pages Format: E-book List Price: $23.99£18.00 Get the E-Book Creating a Learning Society A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald Columbia University Press Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards 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. 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{u2014}that Every Policy Affects Learning{u2014}is Critical For Governments Unaware Of The Innovative Ways They Can Propel Their Economies Forward.--publisher's Website. Pt. 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 -- -- Pt. 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 Joseph E. Stiglitz And Bruce C. Greenwald. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. “A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy 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. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”— Harvard Business Review Creating a Learning Society explains how the countries of the world went from centuries of stagnation to the enormous increases in standards of living that have marked the last two hundred and fifty years: they have learned how to learn. Yet, as Stiglitz and Greenwald make clear, markets won't succeed on their own in creating the learning society that we need. Achieving this requires good governmental policy in a variety of areas, including trade, industry, and intellectual property. Indeed, the central thesis of this book is that every policy-tax, regulation, and expenditure-affects learning, and that policymakers have been remiss in ignoring this. Some policies, such as the Washington Consensus policies foisted on developing countries by the World Bank and IMF, actually impede learning. In advanced and developing countries alike, Creating a Learning Society has had a remarkable reception. Governments in Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Jordan, and South Africa have signaled strong support for its policies, and a Dutch think tank closely allied with the government released a blueprint for creating a learning economy. This streamlined edition, intended for everyone from scholars to general readers, omits the original book's complicated mathematical equations and, in accessible language, focuses on its central messages and policy prescriptions Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface to the Reader’s Edition 9 Acknowledgments 12 Preface to the Original Edition 15 Introduction 19 1. The Learning Revolution 28 2. On the Importance of Learning 44 3. A Learning Economy 60 4. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment 94 5. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning 106 6. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition 130 7. Learning in a Closed Economy 172 8. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment 184 9. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society 212 10. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society 240 11. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society 252 12. Intellectual Property 267 13. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society 295 14. Concluding Remarks 310 Notes 320 Index 361 References 379 A streamlined edition of the book that restored the role of government in promoting science and technology.