Re: Re: Re: Where are the economists? (to the tuneof "where have all the flowers gone")

[Doug Henwood]

Jim Devine wrote:

>I've been told -- by a well-informed political scientist -- that WW 
>Rostow believed that Vietnam was "about to make the take-off" during 
>the 1960s. This "insight" helped shape US military strategy.

According to Robert Wood's From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis (sorry, 
I'm doing this from memory, hope it's reliable), Vietnam was the 
darling of the development establishment in the late 1950s and early 
1960s, and South Korea was considered a basket case.

Doug