Re: Re: WWR & mysteries of the organism

[Brad DeLong]

>WW Rostow was not right, and this I
>will not debate with you. But the reasons why are quite different.
>Neither Argentina, nor Uruguay, nor least of the three Chile had
>taken off.


By Rostow's criteria, Argentina had taken off by the 1880s--and 
Rostow saw "take off" as irreversible. The fact that Argentina today 
is not a rich country is proof that Rostow was wrong in his belief 
that "take off" was irreversible...


Brad DeLong