Since Luis Caceres has nominated his two favourite Latin American economists, Celso Furtado and Raul Prebisch, whom I do not rate, allow me to put up my own (naturalised) Latin American favourite, Lauchlin Currie (1902-1993) who made stellar contributions in the 1930s as a top New Dealer, and equally big contributions to development economics since first heading up a World Bank mission to Colombia in 1949. Roger Sandilands