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- Title
THE GHOST OF ROSTOW: SCIENCE, CULTURE AND THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
- Authors
Ashworth, William J.
- Abstract
The article offers information on economic historian Walt W. Rostow and his contributions to the historiography of industrialization and economic growth. He was born in 1916 and educated at Yale University. Three of his essential features of economic growth were, the propensity to develop fundamental science, the propensity to apply science to economic ends, and the propensity to accept innovations. Moreover, Rostow identified Great Britain as the first and subsequent model of industrial change. In addition, several arguments on the role of science, technology and industry are also offered.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ECONOMICS historians; ROSTOW, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003; HISTORIOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ECONOMIC development; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; TECHNOLOGICAL revolution; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL revolution
- Publication
History of Science, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
0073-2753
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/007327530804600301