Research Catalog

Title

Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth, development, and social progress / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald.

Author

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Greenwald, Bruce C., 1946-

Description

xiv, 660 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series

Uniform Title

Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Social learning
• Information society
• Progress

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Concluding remarks -- Introductory remarks for the first annual arrow lecture / Michael Woodford -- Further considerations / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald -- Commentary: the case for industrial policy / Philippe Aghion -- Commentary / Robert Solow -- Commentary / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Afterword: Rethinking industrial policy / Philippe Aghion.

ISBN

• 9780231152143 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231152140 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231525541 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013047698
• 99960033701

OCLC

• 863195321
• 2013047698
• SCSB-13566474

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries