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An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie
No full textThis paper forms part of a wider project to show the significance of archival material on distinguished economists, in this case Lauchlin Currie (1902-93), who studied and taught at Harvard before entering government service at the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Board as the intellectual leader of Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1934-39, as FDR’s White House economic adviser in peace and war, 1939-45, and as a post-war development economist. It discusses the uses made of the written and oral material available when the author was writing his intellectual biography of Currie (Duke University Press 1990) while Currie was still alive, and the significance of the material that has come to light after Currie’s death.Lauchlin Currie; economic biography; the New Deal; macroeconomic policy; development economics.
An Archival Case Study : Revisiting the Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie
No full textThis paper forms part of a wider project to show the significance of archival material on distinguished economists, in this case Lauchlin Currie (1902-93), who studied and taught at Harvard before entering government service at the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Board as the intellectual leader of Roosevelt's New Deal, 1934-39, as FDR's White House economic adviser in peace and war, 1939-45, and as a post-war development economist. It discusses the uses made of the written and oral material available when the author was writing his intellectual biography of Currie (Duke University Press 1990) while Currie was still alive, and the significance of the material that has come to light after Currie's death
Sutrop on literary fiction-making: defending Currie
No full textIn her study Fiction and Imagination: The Anthropological Function of Literature
(2000), Margit Sutrop criticizes Gregory Currie�s theory of fictionmaking,
as presented in The Nature of Fiction (1990), for using an inappropriate
conception of the author�s �fictive intention.� As Sutrop sees
it, Currie is mistaken in reducing the author�s fictive intention to that of
achieving a certain response in the audience. In this paper, I shall discuss
Sutrop�s theory of fiction-making and argue that although her view is
insightful in distinguishing the illocutionary effect and the perlocutionary
effect in the author�s fictive intention, there are flaws in it. My aim is to
show that, first, Sutrop�s critique of Currie�s view is misguided and, second,
her own definition of fiction as the author�s expression of her imagination
is problematic in not distinguishing literary fiction-making
from other discursive functions and in dismissing the literary practice
which regulates the production of literary fictions
La enseñanza de la economía (II): extractos de informes sobre algunas facultades
No full text<p>Currie, Lauchlin, " The Teaching of Economics (II), the Economy in a Developing Country", Cuadernos de Economía, vol. XIII, Nubers 18-19, Bogotá, 1993, pp. 345-354. The four abstracts selected in this section compile currie's reflections on the nature of economics, the organization for the teaching of economics in Colombia, the economics that should be taught, and how economics should be taught. In them, the author refers to the nature of economics as a social science, to the disadvantages of specializations, and to its differentiation with business administration. Currie criticizes the prevailing tendency to combine in the same faculties the schools of economics and of business administration. He points out that the formation of an economist and of a policy planner should be clearly differentiated. Finally, he reaffirms his opposition to a very specialized and mathematized formation insisting all the need for the economist to receive general courses before receiving his professional formation. In this way, it is guaranteed that he will aquire, from the beginning of his formation, a more ample vision of economic phenomena.</p>Currie, Lauchlin, "La enseñanza de la economía (II)", Cuadernos de Economía, vol. XIII, Números 18-19, Bogotá, 1993, pp. 345-354. Los cuatro extractos seleccionados en esta sección recogen la reflexión de Currie sobre la naturaleza de la economía, la organización para la enseñanza de la economía en Colombia, la economía que debiera enseñarse y como enseñarse la economía. En ellos el autor se refiere al carácter de la economía como ciencia social, a las desventajas de la especialización y a su diferenciación con la administración de negocios. Currie critica la tendencia imperante a combinar en las mismas facultades las escuelas de economía y de administración y señala que debe diferenciarse claramente la formación de un economista y de la de un planificador. Finalmente reafirma su oposición a una formación muy especializada y matematizada insistiendo, además, en la necesidad de que el economista, antes de su fase de formación profesional, reciba cursos generales como forma de garantizar que adquiera desde el principio de su formación, una más amplia visión de los fenómenos económicos
Sobre la contribución de Lauchlin Currie a la teoría monetaria
No full textBrunner presents Currie\u27s book, The Supply and Control of Money in the United States He highlights three aspects of its contribution to the development of what is today a monetary policy. Currie was one of the pioneers in the recollection and evaluation of monetary statistics; he offered an interpretative framerwork for them, and he related the theoretical discussion with policy measures. Currie\u27s ideas on the effectiveness of monetary policy during the 1930s are, in the author\u27s opinion, a development: of the Burgess-Riefler notion about the process of money supply, but change the caused relationship. For Currie, only restrictive policy is considered impotent: during tile period in question. The formulation and development of a theory based on an impelling analysis of the monetary supply mechanism and on a solid empirical foundation, and its use for an intelligent interpretation of monetary policy represent the author\u27s most important concribucions.Brunner presenta el libro de Currie, The Supply and Control of Money in the United States y destaca su aporte en la construcción de lo que es hoy una política monetaria en tres aspectos; Currie fue uno de los pioneros en la recolección y evaluación de estadísticas monetarias; brindóun marco interpretativo para ellas; y relaciono la discusión teórica con las medidas de política. Las ideas de Currie sobre la efectividad de la política monetaria durante los años treinta son, a juicio del autor, un desarrollo de la nación de Burgess-Riefler sobre el proceso de la oferta monetaria pero cambian la relación de causalidad; para Currie únicamente la política contractiva se aprecia como impotente durante el periodo en cuestión. La formulación y el desarrollo de una teoría basada en un acucioso análisis del mecanismo de le oferta monetaria y en una sólida fundamentación empírica, y su uso para una interpretación inteligente de la política monetaria representan las más importantes contribuciones del autor
Brainerd Currie: Man
No full textIt was only last year that I was reviewing Brainerd Currie\u27s Selected Essays on The Conflict of Laws for the Duke Law Journal, and memories of happy encounters with their gentle author were surging through the reading of his original and profound and constructive work. Now as I write of Brainerd Currie, whose life began in Georgia in 1912 and came to a close in North Carolina in 1965, it seems impossible to dispel sadness in coming to terms with the harsh loss of such a friend. Yet one hears his soft-spoken words, no less real because they are imagined, and they alleviate the hurt of loss with their sweet raillery: I expect better of my friends than that they should mourn me, for mourning is no way to celebrate a fine friendship
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Brainerd Currie: Man
No full textIt was only last year that I was reviewing Brainerd Currie\u27s Selected Essays on The Conflict of Laws for the Duke Law Journal, and memories of happy encounters with their gentle author were surging through the reading of his original and profound and constructive work. Now as I write of Brainerd Currie, whose life began in Georgia in 1912 and came to a close in North Carolina in 1965, it seems impossible to dispel sadness in coming to terms with the harsh loss of such a friend. Yet one hears his soft-spoken words, no less real because they are imagined, and they alleviate the hurt of loss with their sweet raillery: I expect better of my friends than that they should mourn me, for mourning is no way to celebrate a fine friendship
Proposals relating to the capital inflow problem: February 13, 1937
No full textThe author, Lauchlin Currie, suggests, in a memorandum written in February 1937, that there should be banking legislation with reference to foreign capital inflows. Gives a series of suggestions as to what might be needed.Banking, Capital input, Economics, History
Of the cholera.
No full text14, [2] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)Caption title.Attributed to William Currie by Evans on the basis of a copyright issued by Pennsylvania District 199 to Currie, as author, January 16, 1798. The National Library of Medicine copy is bound with Currie's Observations on the causes and cure of remitting or bilious fevers, Philadelphia : William T. Palmer, 1798 (Evans 33590) and may have been so issued
La enseñanza de la economía (I): la economía de un país en desarrollo
No full text<p>Currie. Lauchlin, "The Teaching of Economics (I), the Economy in a Developing Country", Cuadernos de Economía, vol. XIII, Números 18-19, Bogota, 1993, pp. 329-344. In this article the author questions tile teachings of economics considering that it is specialized too soon and that it is therefore inadequate for the formation of the general economists needed by the developing countries; economists capable of diagnosing and solving problems. In response to the emphasis given by universities to the teaching of mathematics, macro, micro, and econometrics, he proposes an alternative: general studies in undergraduate programs, economic theory and advanced statistics in post-graduate programs, and later a specialization, This last option could be through academic studies, or through individual study and research.</p>Currie. Lauchlin, "La enseñanza de La economía (I), La economía en un país en desarrollo", Cuadernos de Economía, vol. XIII, Números 18-19, Bogotá, 1993, pp. 329-344. En este artículo el autor hace un profundo cuestionamiento a la enseñanza de la economía por considerarla muy tempranamente especializada y por tanto inadecuada para la formación de los economistas generalistas, agudos y capaces de diagnosticar y Resolver problemas que requieran los países en vía de desarrollo. Frente al énfasis puesto por las escuelas de economía en la formación en matemáticas, macro, micro y econometría, propone más bien como alternativa, la realización de estudios generales en el pregrado, de teoría económica y estadística avanzada en el posgrado, y más adelante de especialización. Esta última opción podría ser tomada bien sea mediante la realización de estudios en centros académicos, o bien mediante la enseñanza y la investigación individual
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