Title:
Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth, development, and social progress / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald ; with commentary and contributions from Philippe Aghion, Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert M. Solow, and Michael Wood Ford.
Author:
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Greenwald, Bruce C., 1946- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Call Number:
HQ783 .S694 2014
Abstract:
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. The authors' analysis provides the foundations of an understanding of the progress and regress of nations. This is social science at its best. -- Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge.
ISBN:
9780231152143
Series:
Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series
Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series (New York, N.Y.)
Physical Description:
xiv, 660 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Creating a learning society: a new approach to growth, development, and social progress: basic concepts ; The learning revolution ; On the importance of learning ; a learning economy ; Creating a learning firm and a learning environment ; Market structure, Welfare, and learning ; The welfare economics of Schumpeterian Competition -- Part 2: Analytics ; Learning in a closed economy-the basic model ; A two-period, N-good model with endogenous labor supply ; Learning with monopolistic competition ; Long-term growth and innovation ; The infant-economy argument for protection: Trade policy in a learning environment -- Part 3: Policies for a learning society. The role of industrial and trade policy in creating a learning society ; Financial policy and creating a learning Society ; Macroeconomic and investment policies for a learning society ; Intellectual property ; Social transformation and the creation of a learning society ; Including remarks -- Part 4: Commentary and afterword. Introductory remarks for the First Annual Arrow Lecture, by Michael Woodford ; Further considerations, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald ; Commentary: The case for industrial policy, by Philippe Aghion ; Commentary, by Robert Solow ; Commentary, by Kenneth Arrow -- Afterword: Rethinking industrial policy, by Philippe Aghion -- Notes -- references -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
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