Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian Long Period

by W.W. Rostow

Book Overview

Bearing on fundamental issues of economic theory, history, and public policy, this volume elaborates and goes beyond themes enunciated in W. W. Rostow's previous works. The eight essays presented here are unified by the author's insistence that neo-Keynesian and neoclassical theory are an inadequate basis for economic analysis and policy prescription. Changes in technology and in the supply of energy, food, and raw materials, he contends, must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292729634
• ISBN13: 9780292729636
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"