... development of economics in the country. The article focuses on the trajectories of five women who graduated between the 1950s and the early 1970s and who had exceptionally successful careers. It shows how the late professionalization of economics in Colombia and access to international credentials created...

...Andrés Álvarez; Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac; Jimena Hurtado Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman worked together as advisers to the National Planning Council in Colombia in the 1950s. Both had little experience in development economics when they arrived, and did not see eye to eye about...

... of training and research in the field. Even though Chile remains the most well-known case, similar developments took place in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and elsewhere. In Brazil, the restructuring of economics derived much of its strength from a cooperation agreement signed between Vanderbilt University...

... at the London School of Economics (1922-29, the next quarter century in the United States, and most of his remaining years in Colombia. At Harvard (1925-34), Currie specialized in monetary theory. His Ph.D. disser- tation was nominated for the prestigious David A. Wells prize but lost out to Harry...

... also his almost lifelong reluctance to talk about his early life. The positive and long-term result of Hirschman’s postwar difficulties was that Hirschman in 1952 went to Colombia on a World Bank contract as an outside expert to advise the country’s president. He stayed five years, first...

... Marchi After the war, Hirschman migrated to the United States and, after working for the Marshall Plan, was initiated into the practical realities of backwardness and development during a four-and-a-half-year stint in Colombia starting in 1952. For the first two years he was economic...

..., Ronald H., 21n2, 83, 91 Coats, A. W., 150 coauthorship, 35 36 netw­ orks, 23 34 trends in, 19, 24, 30 31 women and, 18 19. See also female coauthorship netw­ orks Cobb-Douglas prod­ uc­tion func­tion, 26 Cobble, Dorothy Sue, 230 Cohen, Jennifer, 5, 8, 167, 279 coll­ ect­ ive resist­ ance, 260n2 Colombia...

.... L. R. James Reader . Oxford: Blackwell. Gudeman, Stephen, and Alberto Rivera. 1990 . Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hart, Keith. 2000 . The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World . London: Profile Books. Kant...

... of Valle, Cl. 13 #100–00, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; email: [email protected] ; and Daniel Otero, Department of Computational Science, University of Valle, Cl. 13 #100–00, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; email: [email protected] . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press...

... of Computational Science, University of Valle, Cl. 13 #100–00, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; email: [email protected] . Correspondence may be addressed to Boris Salazar, Department of Economics, University of Valle, Cl. 13 #100–00, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; email: boris.salazar...

... the background of the times. Then, two memoranda, both written in 1935 by Currie as research for the Fed- eral Reserve System, convey a sense of the state of analysis and argument at that time. Finally, Dr. Currie, who has lived in Colombia since 1950, comments upon his effort to develop a fiscal...

...Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Oreste Popescu. Bogota, Colombia: Plaza y Janés, 1986. Pp. 835. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 393 excluding England from that generalisation. In nineteenth-century England, im...

... Bentley’s charge but left the US immediately after the congressional hearings of 1948. He never returned, and he has never had to face charges.” This is untrue. Currie was invited to head a prestigious World Bank mission to Colombia in 1949. The report was written up in Washington, and Currie presented...

... in “Climbing the Obelisk: The Trajectories of Five Women Economists in Colombia, ca. 1950–70.” The authors follow and document the career strategies of five successful women economists in Colombia who began their careers between the 1950s and 1970s. They show how the opportunities and challenges that women...

... coordination of external lending to additional countries in the framework of “Consultative Groups.” The first such group was the one for Colombia, which began formal operations in 1963. The Bank had accumulated considerable experience in major infrastructure sectors and was getting ready to broaden...

... . Uniqueness, Stability, and Comparative Statics in Rationalizable Walrasian Markets. Econometrica 68 : 1529 -39. Carvajal, A. 2002 . Testable Restrictions of General Equilibrium Theory in Exchange Economies with Externalities . Working Paper, Brown University and Banco de la Republica de Colombia...

... of the performance of crawling bands in Chile, Colombia, and Israel. ...

... the transfer of decision-making power to experts in modern societies by studying the formation of an economic technocracy in Colombia during the post–World War II period. He translated Albert O. Hirschman's biography into Spanish and is the author of “The Quarrel of Policy Advisers That Became Development...

...Lauchlin Currie; Roger Sandilands Professor Roger Sandilands, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Curran Building, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 OLN, United Kingdom. Lauchlin Currie, a student of Allyn Young at Harvard in the 1920s, died in Bogota, Colombia, on 23 December...

... scholarship and skill were acclaimed. He served as a State Department lecturer in Latin America as well as in a visiting profes- sional capacity at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, the Uni- versity of Buenos Aires, and the University of the Valley, in Cali, Colombia. He also served...