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When W.W. Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth (1960), the Soviet Union was flying high. A few years earlier, the USSR was the first to launch a satellite into space. It was getting ready to put the first man into orbit. The Soviet leader had famously told a group of Western ambassadors in Moscow, ‘Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you’.
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Goalstone, D. (2007). Stages Of Growth. In: Macrofoundations of Political Economy and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604315_23
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