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Book Cover for: Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition, Joseph E. Stiglitz

Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition

Joseph E. Stiglitz

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 6th, 2015
  • Pages: 432
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reader's - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.80in - 1.20lb
  • EAN: 9780231175494
  • Categories: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyPublic Policy - Economic PolicyDevelopment - Economic Development

About the Author

Stiglitz, Joseph E.: - Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a member and former chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He was the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He served on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and then joined the World Bank as chief economist and senior vice president. His most recent book is The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

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Praise for this book

[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.-- "Harvard Business Review"

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