During the about thirty years of regional policy, the European Union went through several steps in its implementation as much at the level of its conceptualisation as of its adaptations to the successive enlargements. The most important one was certainly the reform of structural funds realized...

In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relative to education and human capital and try to assess whether progress has been made or not. If the main intuitions regarding the link between education and the economy were already present at the...