THE YEAR WAS 1958 AND THE AMERICAN economist Walt Whitman Rostow was lecturing a Cambridge audience about the ingredients that make countries wealthy. He had a famous five-stage theory of economic “take-off” where societies progress from being “traditional” all the way to “high mass consumption” populations. In Rostow’s world, economic institutions made all the difference. … Continue reading "The Persistence of Growth"

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