Preface to the third edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Introduction -- Five Stages-Of-Growth-A Summary: -- Traditional society -- Preconditions for take-off -- Take-off -- Drive to maturity -- Age of high mass-consumption -- Beyond consumption -- Dynamic theory of production -- Preconditions For Take-Off: -- Two cases -- Nature of the transition -- Analysis of the transition -- Two sectoral problems -- Agriculture and the extractive industries -- Social overhead capital -- Non-economic change -- Transitional coalitions -- Alternative directions of nationalism -- First take-off -- Take-Off: -- Achievement of regular growth -- Take-off defined and isolated -- Evidence on investment-rates in the take-off -- Inner structure of the take-off -- Supply of loanable funds -- Sources of entrepreneurship -- Leading sector in the take-off -- Take-off in perspective -- Drive To Maturity: -- Definition and timing -- Sectoral patterns of maturity: railways and their aftermath -- Sweden -- Japan -- Russia -- Some problems in defining maturity -- Maturity in perspective -- Age Of High Mass-Consumption: -- Three-way choice -- American case, Phase One: Progressive Era, 1901-16 -- Phase Two: 1920's -- Phase Three: Great Depression -- Phase Four: Post-War Boom -- Phase Five: Where next? -- Post-maturity elsewhere: Pre-1914 -- 1920's -- 1930's -- Post-1945 -- Terms of trade after two wars -- Beyond high mass-consumption -- Russian And American Growth: -- Remarkable parallel -- Major differences -- Military question -- Economic question -- Locus of the challenge -- Relative Stages-Of-Growth And Aggression: -- War in modern history -- Problem of national sovereignty -- Three kinds of wars -- Colonialism -- Regional aggression -- Struggles for the Eurasian power balance -- Choice of aggression -- Next Phase: Nuclear weapons and the further spread of industrialization -- Relative Stages-Of-Growth And The Problem Of Peace: -- Revolution in weapons -- Diffusion of power in the longer run -- Problem of peace -- Russian national interest -- Moscow's problem of acceptance -- Great act of persuasion -- Beyond peace -- Significance of the diffusion of power for Western Europe -- Take-offs, past and present -- Similarities -- Some relative differences -- Some relative advantages -- Three major implications for policy -- Marxism, Communism, And The Stages-Of-Growth: -- Seven Marxist propositions -- Similarities with stages-of-growth analysis -- Central themes of stages-of-growth -- Marx in perspective -- Evolution of modern Communism -- Communism: a disease of transition -- Statement of values -- Appendix A: Diffusion of the private automobile -- Appendix B: Critics and the evidence -- Coda: Reflections on the debate as of 1990 -- Acknowledgments -- Index.