Ww Rostow Quotes

How, for example, should the traditional society react to the intrusion of a more advanced power: with cohesion, promptness, and vigour, like the Japanese; by making a virtue of fecklessness, like the oppressed Irish of the eighteenth century; by slowly and reluctantly altering the traditional society, like the Chinese?

amend his book like this: W.W. Rostow’s Six Stages of Growth (Twenty-First Century Update) 1. Traditional society 2. Preconditions for take-off 3. Take-off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Preparation for landing 6. Arrival Of course it would be a revolution in mainstream economics simply for Rostow to propose these new chapter headings. It would be another revolution altogether for him—and us—to know what to write in those two missing chapters of the flight manual because such a controlled descent has never been attempted.

W.W. Rostow’s Five Stages of Growth (Twentieth-Century Journey) 1. Traditional society 2. Preconditions for take-off 3. Take-off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Age of high mass-consumption