A third, major omission was the inability to see that there were more than two paths to development. Early writers like Rostow, caught up in the Cold War calculations of the time, envisioned only two routes to development, a communist one and its obviously preferable democratic alternative. But, in fact, there are many diverse paths to development, besides these two: an authoritarian path, a statistic path, a corporatism path, and-most likely of all in most developing countries-a confused, often chaotic, Hodge-lodge alternation between, or mixed combination of, all of these. The proper image to use is not that of “the two paths” but rather of a trellis of the kind one uses in a garden for roses or other climbing vines, with multiple routes to development, numerous crossing patterns, and a great variety of mixed, overlapping, crisscrossing spouts-which also sometimes get reversed, blocked from growing, or stymied.