W. W. Rostow

Concept and Controversy (eBook, ePUB)

Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The noted economist and former National Security Advisor shares lessons learned from decades of national policymaking in this insightful memoir. A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues from World War II to the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this thought-provoking memoir, Rostow discusses his analysis of-and involvement with-eleven key policy problems. In the process, he demonstrates how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call "the future." Rostow examines such varied issues as using airpower in 1940s Europe; early attempts to end the Cold War; the economic revival of Korea; attempts to control inflation in the 1960s; the Vietnam War; and the challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century. In discussing these and other issues, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 485
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292774667
• Artikelnr.: 63556234

Autorenporträt

W. W. Rostow was Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. His sixty-year career has also included service in the U.S. State Department, and he served as special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938
* 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have
Won the War in Europe in 1944?
* 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was
Poland
* 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off
* 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure
* 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats
Triumph after a Fashion
* 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle
* 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation,
1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized
* 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution
* 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have
Been Cut?
* 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control
* 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem
of the Twenty-first Century
* 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread
* 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History
* Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement:
February 1946
* Appendix B
* Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech
* Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic
Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002
* Notes
* Index