opment or national growth or modernization, terms that are used interchangeably. National development, he says, is marked first by increasing economic productivity, which may be spurred by increasing geographic and social mobility and by increasing political efficiency in mobilizing the human and arterial resources of a region and enlisting them in meeting national goals (or societal goals). In the history of our economic life, this has meant a move from the agricultural revolution through industrialization and a second industrial revolution in the form of automation:
The early stages of economic development, then, can be measured in a rough way by the percentage of workers engaged in agriculture, a nation being considered economically developed when more than 50 percent of its economically active men have moved out of agricultural work and into other pursuits (Organski, n.d., 6).
Organski makes a distinction between economic and political development and define
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