W. W. Rostow

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION T "Ihis edition is designed to serve two purposes: to make available a text now out of print 5 and to bring within covers certain further developments of the lines of thought which the first edition contained. Chapters XI-XIV are based on essays written between 1953...

PREFACE This book is the product of both a highly spontaneous and a highly protracted effort. Proximately, it derives from a set of lectures prepared and delivered at Cambridge University in the autumn of 1958. While there on sabbatical leave from M.I.T., I was invited by the Faculty of...

Preface This is a book about theories of economic growth and the men and women who formulated them. It is also about the vicissitudes of the world economy over the past two and a half centuries as they helped shape those theories. And it has something to say about the future—the future of the...