Max Corden

Warner Max Corden (born 1927) is an Australian economist. He is mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the dutch disease model of international trade.^[1] He has also been active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics.^[2] Corden, originally German, emigrated from Nazi Germany to Melbourne in 1939.

Academic career

After completing high school at the academically reputed Melbourne High School, Corden graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1950 and obtained his Ph.D. in economics at the London School of Economics (1956). He was subsequently Nuffield Reader in International Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University, and from 1977 to 1988 he was Professor of Economics at the Australian National University. Furthermore, he was Senior Advisor in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund from 1986 until 1988.

He then became professor and, later on, Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University until he retired in late 2002. He is currently Emeritus Professor of International Economics at SAIS and a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Economics of the University of Melbourne.

Max Corden has a personal website including autobiographical essays and copies of recent publications.

Major publications

• The Theory of Protection (1971)
• Trade Policy and Economic Welfare (1974, 1997)
• Inflation, Exchange Rates, and the World Economy (1977, 1985)
• Protection, Trade and Growth (1985)
• International Trade Theory and Policy (1992)
• Economic Policy, Exchange Rates, and the International System (1994)
• The Road to Reform (1997)
• Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes (2002)

Honours

• Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association
• Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1977-)
• Bernhard Harms Prize for International Economics of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 1986.
• President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand from 1977 to 1980
• Member of the Group of Thirty, from 1982 to 1990.
• Doctorate of Commerce (honoris causa) by the University of Melbourne, 1995.
• Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 1995.
• Fellow of the British Academy since 1997.
• Companion of the Order of Australia, 2001.

External links

• Max Corden

Notes

1. See for example Neville R. Norman (2007), The contribution of Australian economists: the record and the barriers in Economic Papers (Economic Society of Australia) or William Coleman (2006), A Conversation with Max Corden, Economic Record 82 (259), 379–395.
2. Examples of most relevant work could be Corden W.M., Neary J.P. (1982). "Booming Sector and De-industrialisation in a Small Open Economy." The Economic Journal 92 (December): 829-831. Or Corden, W.M. (1984). "Boom Sector and Dutch Disease Economics: Survey and Consolidation." Oxford Economic Papers 36: 362.