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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Description for Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Paperback. Series: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBA; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231175494
SKU
V9780231175494
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About Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton. His books include Making Globalization Work; The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future; The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What to Do About Them; ... Read more
Reviews for Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Praise for the original edition: Profound and dazzling. The authors' analysis provides the foundations of an understanding of the progress and regress of nations. This is social science at its best.
Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge [A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory. Harvard Business Review
Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge [A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory. Harvard Business Review