of land's socially created "valorización" or "unearned land value increments" as cities grow) were explained in Taming the Megalopolis published in 1976. He was also a professor at the National University of Colombia, the Javeriana University, and the University of the Andes. His writings were heavily influenced by his Harvard mentor Allyn Young. An important paper on Youngian endogenous growth theory was published posthumously in History of Political Economy (1997). President César Gaviria awarded Currie Colombia's highest peacetime decoration, the Order of Boyaca, on the day before Garviria's death. Death Currie died on December 23, 1993, aged 91, of a heart attack in Bogota, Colombia. Publications Books The Supply and Control of Money in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1934). . His influential early work on monetary theory and policy, based on his 1931 PhD thesis, Bank Assets and Banking Theory. Included an essay on Currie's contribution to monetary theory, by Karl Brunner. Operación Colombia: un programa nacional de desarrollo económico y social. Bogotá, Colombia: Sociedad de Economistas (1961). Accelerating Development: The Necessity and the Means. New York: McGraw-Hill (1966). . Obstacles to Development. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (1967). Governmental Planning and Political Economy, with by Yngve Larsson and Pieter deWolff. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley (1967). . Taming the Megalopolis: A Design for Urban Growth. New York: Pergamon Press, with the United Nations (1976). . The Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press (1981). . Articles "Federal Reserve Policy, 1921-1930: A Rejoinder." American Economic Review, vol. 21, no. 3 (1931), pp. 502–502. . "Treatment of Credit in Contemporary Monetary Theory." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 41, no. 1 (Feb. 1933), pp. 58–79. . "Money, Gold, and Income in the United States, 1921-32." Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 48, no. 1 (Nov. 1933), pp. 77–95. . . "A Note on Income Velocities." Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 48, no. 2 (Feb. 1934), pp. 353–354. . . "The Failure of Monetary Policy to Prevent the Depression of 1929–32." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr. 1934), pp. 145–177. . "The Supply and Control of Money: A Reply to Dr. B. M. Anderson, Jr." Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 49, No. 4 (Aug. 1935), pp. 694–704. . . "Some Prerequisites for Success of the Point Four Program." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 270,