Lauchlin Currie (1902-1993)

Sandilands, R.J.; Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Lawrence E., eds. (2008) Lauchlin Currie (1902-1993). In: Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 0333786769

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Abstract

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
    ID code:7237
    Dates:
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    2008
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    Notes:Also published in Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 188-193, 2006. ISBN 1843711125 (Strathprints ID 15382) And 'Encyclopaedia of World War II' (strathprints ID 15411) And 'Encyclopaedia of the Great Depression' (strathprints ID 15412) And 'American National Biography On-line' (strathprints ID 15377)
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Economic Theory
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
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    Date deposited:12 Jan 2009 17:02
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 14:34
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