Download or read book The Great Population Spike and After written by Walt Whitman Rostow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the views of economist Walt W. Rostow, on what problems and prospects the world is likely to face in the year 2050. Central to his theory is his argument that the population of the world, after a growth from the year 1176 up to 2050, will achieve zero growth by 2100.