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Try Lauchlin Currie, "The Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries", The
Greenwood Press, 1981.
 
In this book Currie (who was FDR's economic policy adviser in the White House for 6 years
and a presidential adviser in Colombia for over 40 years), takes strong issue with a host
of competing policy advisers such as Hirschman, Seers, Todaro, Prebisch, Schumacher, and
many other advisers from the international agencies who opposed him, inter alia, on
urbanisation policy, export-led growth, and monetary and exchange rate policy. Currie was
still actively writing on theory and policy at the time of his death in late 1993, and his
last paper (published in HOPE 1997) was on the policy implications of different endogenous
growth theories.
 
Sir Alec Cairncross, sometime chief economic adviser to the UK government, said of his
1981 book that "it not only talks more consistent sense about the theory of economic
development than any other book I have read but is full of useful guidance on problems of
policy based on personal experience."
 
Roger Sandilands 
University of Strathclyde, UK 
 
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