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Outline briefly the “age of mass consumption” as described by Rostow in his multi-stage theory of growth.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Models, Theories and Laws

The age of high mass consumption is the fifth and terminal stage of W. W. Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth (1960), reached after traditional society, the preconditions, take-off and the drive to maturity.

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