Posts tagged: Walt Rostow

President Johnson poses with members of his staff, including Rostow, front right, during his final weeks in office in 1969.

How Walt Rostow’s Economic Theory Helped Mire the United States in the Vietnam War

September 25, 2017 | By The Conversation

Ken Burns’s PBS series doesn’t dwell on the economic theory that got America into Vietnam and staying there: Walt Rostow’s theory that Communism held back development.