I wonder what a person who thinks Rostow is a good economist is doing on a
progressive economists' list (other than engage in periodic redbaiting)?
Rostow, his brother, Lyndon Johnson, Kissinger, and many others (didn't
another "good" economist, James Deusenberry (sp?) argue that the Vietnam war
was good because it was speeding up urbanization, one of the signs of
development?) have blood on their hands, and lots of it. Rostow's stage
theory of development is, in my view, a piece of crap, and that is how I
would characterize him too.
Michael Yates
Brad DeLong wrote:
> >Beginning with the Kennedy administration, large numbers of economists
> >penetrated the highest reaches of government -- far more so than during
> >the New Deal. I remember in issue of Life Magazine or Look Magazine
> >from during the Kennedy years with a cover plastered with pictures of
> >all the economists in major government positions.
> >
>
> Walt Whitman Rostow is a very good development economist and economic
> historian. But I wouldn't call his tenure as Assistant to the
> President for National Security a big win...
>
> Brad DeLong
