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.
Table of Content
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
10. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society
11. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society
12. Intellectual Property
13. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society
14. Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Index
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