Creating a Learning Society

A new paradigm for economic growth theory.

Preface
Acknowledgments for the Series
Acknowledgments for the First Arrow Lecture
Introduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
Part 1: Creating a Learning Society: A New Paradigm for Development and Social Progress: : Basic Concepts
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
Part 2: Analytics
7. Learning in a Closed Economy—the Basic Model
8. A Two-Period, N-Good Model with Endogenous Labor Supply
9. Learning with Monopolistic Competition
10. Long-Term Growth and Innovation
11. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment
Part 3: Policies for a Learning Society
12. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society
13. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society
14. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society
15. Intellectual Property
16. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society
17. Concluding Remarks
Part 4: Commentary and Afterword
18. Introductory Remarks for the First Annual Arrow Lecture, by Michael Woodford
19. Further Considerations, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
20. Commentary: The Case for Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion
21. Commentary, by Robert Solow
22. Commentary, by Kenneth Arrow
Afterword: Rethinking Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion
Notes
References
Notes on Contributors
Index