Joseph Stiglitz Talks About Creating A Learning Society

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-20

Summary:

"Joseph Stiglitz talks about the latest in his long line of books exploring economic ideas: 'Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress'.  Written with Bruce C. Greenwald, it evolved from the Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series.  The video is a recording of the lecture he gave talking about the principles of a learning society and how we achieve it. It was given as the Angus Miller Lecture for the Royal Society of Arts in Scotland.  We know that standards of living come about through advances in technology rather than through the accumulation of capital. Robert Solow, another Nobel prize winning economist developed proofs for this perspective 60 years ago. A financial vision of society is less useful than that of improving our means. Stiglitz describes how it is an impoverishment of knowledge as well as resources which impedes countries from changing their circumstances of poverty to better well being and resilient economies. At the centre of this he places learning as a most important means to advance citing the Scottish Enlightenment as a particularly good example ..."

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http://www.ragged-online.com/2014/09/joseph-stiglitz-talks-creating-learning-society/

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Date tagged:

09/20/2014, 18:37

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09/20/2014, 14:37