Sandilands, R.J. (2006) Lauchlin Currie (1902-93). In: Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 188-193. ISBN 1843711125
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Biography of the economist Lauchlin Currie. At Harvard in the early 1930s Currie pioneered a monetary diagnosis of the 1929-32 collapse and placed blame on the Federal Reserve Board. As a prominent New Dealer at the Fed during 1934-9 he urged contra-cyclical monetary and fiscal activism. During 1939-45 he worked in Washington as President Roosevelt's economic adviser. After heading a World Bank mission to Colombia in 1949 he spent 40 years advising on national development there. He emphasized urban housing as a leading sector, based on an innovative housing finance system, and extended Allyn Young's ideas on macroeconomic increasing returns and endogenous growth.
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 7236 |
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| Keywords: | Lauchlin Currie, biography, economists, monetarism, Commerce |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Commerce |
| Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Economics |
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| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2009 17:08 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 10:46 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/7236 |
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