This while we continue to invest in knowledge, in schools and universities, with the aim of rapidly overcoming the very serious deficit of “functional literacy and numeracy” observed in many countries (notably in Italy) by the 2013 OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies.
37 Indeed, as famously stated by Benjamin Franklin in his almanac, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”. This investment in knowledge must necessarily pay  34  B. Eichengreen, “Secular Stagnation: A Review of the Issues”, in Teulings and Baldwin, op. cit. 35  A.B. Atkinson (2014), “After Piketty?”, op. cit.