Max Corden Explained
| Honorific-Prefix: | Professor |
| W. Max Corden |
| Honorific-Suffix: | AC |
| Birth Date: | 1927 8, df=yes |
| Death Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Spouse: | Dorothy Corden (dec.) |
| Children: | Jane Corden (dec.) |
| Occupation: | Economist |
| Website: | http://www.maxcorden.com/ |
Warner Max Corden AC (13 August 1927 – 21 October 2023)[1] was an Australian economist. He was mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the Dutch disease model of international trade.[2] He was also active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics.[3] Corden, originally German, emigrated from Nazi Germany to Melbourne in 1939. Corden died on 21 October 2023, at the age of 96.[4]
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 PhD 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.[5] 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 then served as emeritus professor of international economics at SAIS and a professorial fellow in the Department of Economics of the University of Melbourne.
Max Corden maintained 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)
- Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country [autobiography] (2017), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Honours
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 2023-10-25 . Warner Max Corden – Death Notice . 2023-10-24 . The Age.
- 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.
- 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.
- News: Kehoe . John . Economic ‘giant’ Max Corden dies, aged 96 . 23 October 2023 . The Australian Financial Review . 23 October 2023.
- Details of Corden's life can be heard in an interview conducted by his former Australian National University colleague Professor Bob Gregory which is held in the Audio History Collection of the Australian National Library.
- Web site: Academy Fellow – Professor Max Corden AC, FASSA, FBA . 2023-11-25 . Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia . en-AU.
- Day Honours List, 2001.
- News: Australia Day 2001 Honours. 2001-01-26. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special (National : 1977 - 2012). 23 October 2023. 1.
