MACMILLAN Finance, Research, Education and Growth

A crucial issue in the era of globalisation and internationalization, is whether the relationship between investment and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Received wisdom is that Research and Development is essential not only for maintaining productivity, but also for competing in the marketplace. Similar questions have been raised about education and its rate of 'social return; is education necessary for improving the skill of the workforce, or does it serve primarily to facilitate the adoption of these new technologies? This book brings together a case of leading international scholars to analyze the importance of education, research and human capital and the impact of financial systems on growth and development. About the Author DANIELE ARCHIBUGI Technological Director, Italian National Research Council, Rome VICENZO ATELLA Department of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vargata' JONATHAN EATON Department of Economics, Boston University SAMUEL KORTUM Department of Economics, Boston University CHARLES I. JONES Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley DALE W. JORGENSON Department of Economics, Harvard University ROSS LEVINE Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota GIANCARLO MARINI Department of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' JONATHAN MICHIE Management Department, Birkbeck College, London RICHARD R. NELSON George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business and Law, Columbia University HOWARD PACK Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania DARIUS PALIA Rutgers University, USA EDMUND S. PHELPS Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York BENIAMINO QUINTIERI Department of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' PASQUALE LUCIO SCANDIZZO Department of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' PASQUALE SCARAMOZZINO School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London