biography
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Rostow, Walt (Whitman)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–2003)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Yale and Oxford universities, served with the US army, and became assistant chief of the German-Austrian economic division of the State Department. He taught at Oxford and Cambridge, then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies (1950–60), and was special adviser to presidents Kennedy (1961–3) and Johnson (1966–9). In 1969 he became professor of economics and history at Texas. He is best known for his theory that societies pass through five stages of economic growth, and his publications include The World Economy: History and Prospect (1978). |
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