President Truman's memoirs make clear that both of these strands--the fear of depression and the view that the government has a role to play in economic stabilization--influenced his request to the Congress for full employment legislation in the fall of 1945.2 Of course, the legislative process is full of compromise and can lead to unexpected outcomes, and according to some observers, the creation of the CEA by the Employment Act was just such an event.
It is here that the problems originate, and not in a shortage of resources for education per student, which in Italy are actually above the European average. For an advanced economy, an even more direct and immediate contribution to growth comes from the university system.