Creating a Learning Society

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.

Auteur

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald

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

Contenu

Preface to the Reader's Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 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
   Part II. Policies for a Learning Society
   9. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society
9. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society
10. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society
11. Intellectual Property
12. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society
13. Concluding Remarks
    Notes
    References
    Index