The Stages of Economic Growth; A Non-Communist Manifesto

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped at the bottom corner (priced $3.75 with a stamp at the top corner), rubbed at the front panel, toned at the spine. Green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, which is creased down the center, clean otherwise. Rostow's classic work outlining his five stages of economic growth while offering "a comprehensive, realistic and soundly based alternative to Marx's theory of how societies evolve." A highly influential and important work from the M.I.T professor and member of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This copy bears the signature of Donald K. Freebairn who worked in Mexico for the Rockefeller Foundation and served as the chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University.