Creating a Learning Society - Joseph E Stiglitz Bruce Greenwald Philippe Aghion Kartoniert (TB)

Creating a Learning Society explains how the countries of the world went from centuries of stagnation to the enormous increases in standards of living that have marked the last two hundred and fifty years: they have learned how to learn. Yet as Stiglitz and Greenwald make clear markets won't succeed on their own in creating the learning society that we need. Achieving this requires good governmental policy in a variety of areas including trade industry and intellectual property. Indeed the central thesis of this book is that every policy--tax regulation and expenditure--affects learnin g and that policymakers have been remiss in ignoring this. Some policies such as the Washington Consensus policies foisted on developing countries by the World Bank and IMF actually impede learning.