“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
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ISBN
9780231540629
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Språk
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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