The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto

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Cambridge University Press, 1990 - Business & Economics - 272 pages
A third edition of The Stages of Economic Growth brings this classic work up to date with current economic and political changes. In a new preface and appendix, Professor Rostow extends his analysis to include recent economic and political developments as well as the advances in theory concerning nonlinear and chaotic phenomena. For those coming to his work for the first time, the original text and the introductions and appendices from earlier editions are included. This volume will not only be of interest to those concerned with the theory of economic growth, but also to students of policy since the 1960s. In the text Professor Rostow gives an account of economic growth based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. Five basic stages of economic growth are distinguished with detailed discussions of each stage including illustrative examples. He also applies the concept of stages of growth to an examination of the problems of military aggression and the nuclear arms race. The final chapter includes a comparison of his non-communist manifesto with Marxist theory. Materials from the second edition include an appendix in which he responds to some of his critics.
 

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition page
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
xxxix
Preface to the First Edition
xlvii
THE PRECONDITIONS FOR TAKEOFF
17
THE TAKEOFF
36
THE DRIVE TO MATURITY
59
THE AGE OF HIGH MASSCONSUMPTION
73
RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN GROWTH page
93
RELATIVE STAGESOFGROWTH
106
THE RELATIVE STAGESOFGROWTH AND
123
MARXISM COMMUNISM AND THE STAGESOF
145
THE DIFFUSION OF THE PRIVATE
168
REFLECTIONS ON THE DEBATE AS OF 1990
242
Acknowledgments
259
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