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CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY - JOSEPH E STIGLITZ...

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 learning  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.

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