W. W. Rostow is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of numerous books and articles on economic theory, history, and public policy, he has taught at Cambridge, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Oxford, and was a consultant to the Eisenhower Administration before serving in those of Kennedy and Johnson.

1. The Framework ; 2. Population and the Stages of Growth ; 3. Technology and Investment ; 4. Relative Prices ; 5. Cycles ; 6. Limits to Growth ; 7. The Role of the United States in the Post-Cold War World ; 8. The Critical Margin and America's Inner Cities ; 9. Conclusions