Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Roger Sandilands
Author-Name-First: Roger
Author-Name-Last: Sandilands
Author-Email: r.j.sandilands@strath.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde
Title: An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie
Abstract: 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.
Length: 35 pages
Creation-Date: 2009-01
Revision-Date: 
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File-URL: http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/departmentsubject/economics/research/researchdiscussionpapers/2009/09-06RJS.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 0906
Classification-JEL: A11, B25, E50, O10, O54
Keywords: Lauchlin Currie; economic biography; the New Deal; macroeconomic policy; development economics.
Handle: RePEc:str:wpaper:0906