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Rostow's Take-off Model

Drag00n79 · 2016-04-01 00:54:59

Just reading a bit of Rostow's suggested stages of development / growth. And while, I'm all to well aware of its failings and limitations, it got me thinking nonetheless. Many historians gauge the 'take-off' period for Britain to be in the late 18th century, the US in the mid 19th century, and China in the early 1950s.…

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Just reading a bit of Rostow's suggested stages of development / growth. And while, I'm all to well aware of its failings and limitations, it got me thinking nonetheless.

Many historians gauge the 'take-off' period for Britain to be in the late 18th century, the US in the mid 19th century, and China in the early 1950s. When would you think an independent Ireland achieved its 'take-off' status? In the late 1950s with Ken Whitaker's First Programme for Economic Expansion up to right before we joined the EEC, perhaps?

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