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[Identification of item], Lauchlin Bernard Currie Papers, Rare Book,Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
The collection was received as a gift of the estate of Lauchlin Bernard Currie in 1998 and as a gift from another donor in 1998 and 1999.
Processed by Kirk White, Ann Langford, and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico
Completed March 23, 2000
Encoded by Paula Jeannet Mangiafico and Lisa Stark
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
Lauchlin Bernard Currie (1902-1993) was an influential economist, advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939-1945, and to the government of Colombia, 1949-1993. He was involved with the Lend-Lease Program with China during WWII, and became acting director of the Foreign Economic Administration in 1943-44. This work resulted in his being a target during the McCarthy era and he lost his US citizenship in 1954. He settled in Colombia after 1954 and continued to serve as an advisor to the leaders of that country until his death in 1993.
The Lauchlin Bernard Currie Papers, 1930-1997, serve to document the life, career, and theories of the economist. The collection chiefly consists of correspondence, published, materials, clippings, and subject files, and is primarily arranged chronologically and thematically. The bulk of the materials focus on Currie's analysis of macroeconomic policy during the New Deal, and growth, housing, and export policies for developing countries, especially Colombia. There is also material on China and Currie's mentor at Harvard Allyn Young
Note: The Printed Materials Series of the Lauchlin Bernard Currie Papers has been processed and inventoried at an item level, but the Personal Papers Series beginning with Box 9 is unprocessed and requires careful handling, as many of the materials are fragile. The main collection (Acc. 1998-0039) is in the original order it was received with the exception of two accessions folded in after 1998 (1998-0349, 1999-0172). Small groups of materials received post-processing (2000-0251, 2001-0164, 2003-0208, and 2012-0051) are also listed. Folder groups headed only by a date span generally contain articles, reports, and correspondence on a wide variety of economic and socio-political subjects chiefly relating to plans for
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
This addition to the collection contains copies of correspondence and writings by Currie, as well as transcripts and other documents related to the investigation of
The addition contains primarily correspondence between Currie and his biographer, Roger Sandilands, and related material about Currie's contributions to development economics (1992-1993). Includes comments on Currie's views and on the writings and positions of other economists.
Currie's subject files, chiefly related to Colombian economy. Materials in Spanish. File folders have numeric codes assigned; some numbers are missing.
Currie's subject files, chiefly related to Colombian economy. Materials in Spanish. File folders have numeric codes assigned; some numbers are missing.