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2017 Reprint of 1960 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. 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…
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1 author picked The Stages of Economic Growth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book, originally published in 1960, is the classical statement of the still dominant position in economic history, which assumes that economic growth is natural and which I have proven wrong.
I recommend it to anyone interested in the current (unchanging for decades) state of the discipline as an essential model of what I was arguing against.
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