Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present: With a Perspective on the Next Century

by Walt Rostow and W.W. Rostow

Book Overview

This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates the economic theory, economic history, and public policy observations of the renowned scholar W. W. Rostow. Looking at the economic growth theories of the classic economists up to 1870, Rostow compares Hume and Adam Smith, Malthus and Ricardo, and J.S. Mill and Karl Marx. He then examines the period 1870-1939 and its economic theorists, including Schumpeter, Colin Clark, Kuznets,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195080432
• ISBN13: 9780195080438
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"