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Rostow, Walt Whitman

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Rostow, Walt Whitman, 1916–2003, U.S. economist and government official, brother of Eugene Rostow Rostow, Eugene Victor Debs, 1913–2002, U.S. lawyer, educator, and government official, brother of Walt Whitman Rostow , b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1938, Rostow joined the Yale law school faculty and became (1944–84) full professor of law.
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, b. New York City. A Yale Ph.D. (1940) and Rhodes scholar, he served (1942–45) with the covert Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later was (1950–61) a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As chairman (1961–66) of the policy planning council of the State Dept., and later as special assistant for national security affairs (1966–69) to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow exerted a major influence on U.S. foreign policy and strongly advocated the escalating military intervention in Vietnam (see Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam.
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). He became (1969) professor of economics and history at the Univ. of Texas. An important economic theorist, Rostow formulated significant theories of economic growth, taking an historical approach. His books include The Stages of Economic Growth (1960, 2d ed. 1971) and The World Economy (1978).
Rostow, Walt Whitman (1916–  ) economist; born in New York City. He served as a special adviser to President John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and was chairman of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department (1961–66). He was a strong supporter of the Vietnam War under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later returned to teaching at the University of Texas: Austin (1969). He is known for his expertise in the history of British economics as well as his theory that societies pass through five stages of economic growth.


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