"A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D." -- Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy

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.

"Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge... This is social science at its best." -- Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

"An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning... This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications." -- Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

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

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