@article{717040, author = {Stiglitz, Joseph E., and Greenwald, Bruce C.,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717040}, title = {Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth, development, and social progress /}, abstract = {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. The authors' analysis provides the foundations of an understanding of the progress and regress of nations. This is social science at its best. -- Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge.}, recid = {717040}, pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 660 pages) :}, }