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The world economy: history & prospect

Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-

Year: c1978.

Publisher: University of Texas Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Tables

List of Charts

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE. THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

1. Two Centuries of Expansion in World Population

2. Population Dynamics among the Early-Comers to Industrialization

3. Population Dynamics among the Late-Comers to Industrialization

4. The Contemporary Scene: A Preliminary View

PART TWO. GROWTH SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN OVERALL VIEW

5. Industrial Growth and Its Diffusion

6. Growth and Structural Change

7. International Trade and Its Changing Distribution

8. Prices

9. Relative Prices and the Terms of Trade

PART THREE. TREND PERIODS

10. Balanced and Unbalanced Growth

11. 1790-1815

12. 1815-1848

13. 1848-1873

14. 1873-1920

15. 1920-1936

16. 1936-1951

17. 1951-1972

18. The Price Revolution of 1972-1976

19. Trend Periods Summarized

PART FOUR. BUSINESS CYCLES

20. Cycles: Another Result of Unbalanced Growth

21. Cycles in the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1783

22. Cycles in the Classic Era: 1783-1914

23. Interwar Cycles: 1919-1939

24. Cycles in Growth Rates: 1945-1973

25. Inflation: The Price of Full Employment

26. Stagflation: 1974-1976

PART FIVE. STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: TWENTY COUNTRIES

27. Aggregate and Sectoral Analysis of Growth

28. Great Britain

29. The United States

30. France

31. Germany

32. Sweden

33. Japan

34. Russia-USSR

35. Italy

36. Canada

37. Australia

38. Argentina

39. Turkey

40. Brazil

41. Mexico

42. Iran

43. India

44. China

45. Taiwan

46. Thailand

47. South Korea

48. Four Conclusions

PART SIX. THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY

49. Are There Limits to Growth?

50. Population and Food

51. Energy

52. Raw Materials

53. Pollution and the Environment

54. Political Economy in the Fifth Kondrateiff Upswing

55. Tasks of International Cooperation

Appendix A. Index of World Industrial Production, 1700-1971

Appendix B. The Volume and Distribution of World Trade, 1720-1971

Appendix C. The Size of the United States Motor Vehicle Sectoral Complex, Early 1970's

Appendix D. Sources for Charted Data, Part Five

Notes

Author Index

Subject Index

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Title:

The world economy : history & prospect W. W. Rostow.

Author:

Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-

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The world economy : history & prospect W. W. Rostow.
Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-
Austin: University of Texas Press, c1978.

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• Economic forecasting
• Economic history

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