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    An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie

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    This 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

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    This 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

    Social Media Users\u27 Guide

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    Mass Communication Professor Susan Currie Sivek shares ideas and suggestions for how to take control of social media and use it to your advantage

    Writing women into the law in Queensland

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    Writing Women into the Law in Queensland consists, as well as an exegesis, of profiles of seven significant women in the law in Queensland which have been published in A Woman's Place: 100 years of women lawyers edited by Susan Purdon and Aladin Rahemtula and published by the Supreme Court of Queensland Library in November 2005. Those women are Leneen Forde, Chancellor of Griffith University and former Governor of Queensland; Kate Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court and now of the Court of Appeal; Leanne Clare, the first female Director of Public Prosecutions; Barbara Newton, the first female Public Defender; Carmel MacDonald, President of the Aboriginal Land Tribunals and the first female law lecturer in Queensland; Fleur Kingham, formerly Deputy President of the land and Resources Tribunal and now Judge of the District Court and Catherine Pirie, the first Magistrate of Torres Strait descent. The accompanying exegesis investigates the development of the creative work out of the tensions between the aims of the work, its political context, the multiple positions of the biographer, and the collaborative and collective nature of the enterprise

    Bayesian sampling methods in epidemic and finite mixture models

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    Sutrop on literary fiction-making: defending Currie

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    In 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

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    <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

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    Brunner 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

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    It 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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