Population-Level Learning and Industry Change

by Joel A.C. Baum

Any system for giving good advice has to maintain a tension between telling the truth and not being heard, on the one hand, and telling what can be heard but is not true, on the other. In such a system, the role of academic researchers is not so much to give advice as it is to generate knowledge and to provide critical commentary on advice that is given. Along the way, an academic tries to counteract the natural tendency of advice givers to become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762305002
• ISBN13: 9780762305001
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"