----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]