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  • Walt Whitman Rostow, born in New York City to a Russian Jewish émigré family, was an American economic historian and a pioneer of postwar development economics. He taught at Oxford and Cambridge before taking up a chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT (1951–1961). [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Rostow, Walt Whitman (1916–2003)]

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