Walt Whitman Rostow, 1916-

Economic historian and popularizer of linear stages theory of economic development with his 1960 booklet, Stages of Economic Growth. Later was involved in foreign policy and political affairs, and became one of the leading advisors to McNamara during the Vietnam War.

Major Works of Walt Whitman Rostow

• "Investment and the Great Depression", 1938, Econ History Review
• Essays on the British Economy of the Nineteenth Century, 1948.
• "The Terms of Trade in Theory and Practice", 1950, Econ History Review
• "The Historical Anlysis of Terms of Trade", 1951, Econ History Review
• The Process of Economic Growth, 1952.
• "Trends in the Allocation of Resources in Secular Growth", 1955, in Dupriez, editor, Economic Progress
• An American Policy in Asia, with R.W. Hatch, 1955.
• "The Take-Off into Self-Sustained Growth", 1956, EJ
• A Proposal: Key to an effective foreign policy, with M. Millikan, 1957.
• "The Stages of Economic Growth", 1959, Econ History Review
• The Stages of Economic Growth: A non-communist manifesto, 1960.
• Politics and the Stages of Growth, 1971.
• How it All Began: Origins of the modern economy, 1975.
• The World Economy: History and prospect, 1978.
• Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian long period, 1980.
• Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present, 1990.

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