At 11:10 AM 10/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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)?
I think that WW Rostow had some good points, though his involvement with
the Vietnam war and his "stages theory" ideology sure make the balance lean
toward the bad side. His economic history of England is informative, while
his anti-formalist vision of economics (cited several times in Bill Tabb's
recent book on the history of economic thought) is useful.
It seems to me that he shows what can happen to the average academic if he
gets into the state hierarchy and wants to have some influence on the
people at the top there.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
