Creating a Learning Society

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While this talk speaks to a continuation of my exceptionally productive

joint effort with Bruce Greenwald, expanding now for more than three

decades, my work on the points secured here returns to my days as a

graduate understudy, with 50 years of collected obligations. I have to

start by particularly expressing gratitude toward two of my instructors, who were available at the

address at which the previous form of these thoughts was introduced,

Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. At the time I was an alumni understudy,

development hypothesis was extremely popular, and endogenous development hypothesis—

clarifying the pace of mechanical advancement—assimilated a lot of our

consideration. I was lucky to have the option to invest energy at MIT as well as

additionally at the University of Chicago and Cambridge University. At MIT, I

ought to recognize the impact of Evsey Domar, Paul Samuelson, and

Franco Modigliani; at Cambridge, of Nicholas Kaldor, James Meade,

James Mirrlees, David Champernowne, and Frank Hahn. Hirofumi

Uzawa brought a gathering of us together from all through the United States

for a mid year at the University of Chicago to talk about these issues—

counting George Akerlof, Eytan Sheshinki, and Karl Shell. While at

Cambridge, I started my joint efforts with Tony Atkinson and Partha

Dasgupta, and the thoughts created with them saturate this book.