Guilt by Association? Lauchlin Currie's Alleged Involvement with Washington Economists in Soviet Espionage

Why Were Biological Analogies in Economics “A Bad Thing”? Edith Penrose's Battles against Social Darwinism and McCarthyism

“…Another prominent economist in the Roosevelt administration who was labeled a spy (and terminated his career in the United States) is Lauchlin Currie. Currie appeared together with White before the HUAC (Sandilands 2000). 17 Lattimore had been recruited by Currie and appointed by a committee chaired by Harry Dexter White to serve as an adviser to Chiang Kai-shek in 1941 (Sandilands 1990;Newman 1992 On the friendship with the Penroses, "A pleasant but rather late evening with the Boas', the Lattimores, and Dorothy Thomas" (Edith Penrose to Fritz Machlup, March 20, 1955, Box 57, Folder 23, Fritz Machlup Papers, Hoover Institution (Hereafter, Machlup Papers).…”

The political economy of the World Bank: the early years

“…This is especially true for the documents held in the World Bank Group Archives, covering many aspects of the life of the Bank in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Roger Sandilands had already discussed the Currie papers in several articles and in The Life and Po liti cal Economy of Lauchlin Currie (Sandilands 1990(Sandilands , 2004Sandilands and Laidler 2002; for a specifi c analysis of Sandilands's work on the Currie papers, see Sandilands 2009). However, I had the opportunity to explore the Currie papers more in-depth as regards the relation between Currie and the Bank.…”

“…53. The interpretation of this book is still debated: Sandilands (1990) highlights the arguments that accuse the Federal Reserve of having caused the Great Depression in the 1930s through an unjustifi ably passive monetary policy; Kindleberger (1991) is doubtful of this interpretation and highlights Currie's analysis of the multiplier. C h a p t e r t h r e e 1.…”

“…Badgered hotly by a young Richard Nixon, White gave particularly dramatic and passionate testimony. As he was returning to his house that eve ning, he felt ill and died three days later of a heart attack (Sandilands 2000;Boughton 2001). Lauchlin Currie was able to defend himself and return to his job.…”

Politics and the attack on FDR's economists: from the grand alliance to the Cold War

“…In earlier, independent, assessments of the arguments made against Currie and White the present writers concluded that in each case the evidence is ambiguous and that their guilt is unlikely. [1] That conclusion is strengthened when the two cases are examined jointly. While it is true that if one starts from a presumption of guilt, the recently declassified documents appear to add to the weight of the case, this is not true if one starts from a presumption of innocence and a skeptical view of assertions made by espionage agents.…”