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 analyse the importance of education, research and human capital and the impact of financial systems on growth and development. Contents: Notes on the Contributors Preface; L.Paganetto PART I: FINANCE AND GROWTH Stock Markets Liquidity and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence; R.Levine The Empirical Importance of Private Ownership for Economic Growth; D.Palia & E.S.Phelps Intergenerational Transfers and Growth; G.Marini & P.Scaramozzino PART II: RESEARCH AND GROWTH Human Capital, Ideas and Economic Growth; C.I.Jones A Rising Trade of Diffusion as Conduits of Growth; J.Eaton & S.Kortum The Role of Education and Knowledge in Endogenous Growth; L.Paganetto & P.L.Scandizzo Factors Behind the Asian Miracle: Entrepreneurship, Education and Finance; R.R.Nelson & H.Pack Productivity, Growth and the Business Cycle: An Analysis of the Italian Manufacturing Sector; V.Atella & B.Quintieri Technological Globalization of National Systems of Innovation?; D.Archibugi & J.Michie PART III: EDUCATION AND GROWTH Endogenizing Investment in Tangible Assets, Education, and New Technology; D.W.Jorgenson Conclusions; E.S.Phelps Author Biographies: LUIGI PAGANETTO is Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome and President of the Centre for International Studies on Economics Growth-CEIS Tor Vergata. EDMUND S. PHELPS is Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, New York. Printing of the book is limited to 10 pages per day.