Why the Poor Get Rich and the Rich Slow Down
The effort to figure out what is wrong with the world economy has turned people increasingly to long-cycle theory. Professor Rostow is an old hand in these matters, as historian and as student of the process of growth, so it is very helpful to have a collection of his papers dealing with a number of aspects of the subject, including technology, price and the North-South questions.
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