Practice question · Put in order
Order Rostow’s stages of growth.
- Take-off
- Traditional society
- Drive to maturity
- Age of mass consumption
- Preconditions for take-off
Hints
- The sequence runs from a static economy to mass consumption.
- The decisive break in the middle is the one the whole model is named around.
Show the answer
- Traditional society
- Preconditions for take-off
- Take-off
- Drive to maturity
- Age of mass consumption
Why
The modernization staircase in its canonical order, elegant, influential, and exactly what dependency theorists accused of mistaking a blocked road for an unclimbed stair.
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