Professor Max Corden

Biography

Professor W. (Warner) Max Corden is Emeritus Professor of International Economics of Johns Hopkins University, and has been a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Economics of the University of Melbourne since July 2002.

He is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society in Australia, and has been President of the Economic Society of Australia and a member of the Group of Thirty. In January 2001 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.

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Research Interests and Main Publications

Over an academic career spanning more than forty years, Max Corden has published numerous articles and several books, mostly in the field of international economics, both theory and policy. He is best known for his work on the theory of trade protection. His research interests have also included the macroeconomic policies of developing countries, and economic policy in Australia.

He is the author of 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), and the Road to Reform (1997).

His most recent book is Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes (2002).

Publications from 2001

Available in PDF format.

Macroeconomics

The Dutch Disease in Australia (2012)

• Global Imbalances and the Paradox of Thrift (2011)
• Ambulance Economics: The Pros and Cons of Fiscal Stimuli (2009)
• The Theory of the Fiscal Stimulus (2009)
• China's Current Account Surplus (2009)
• The World Credit Crisis: Understanding it, and What to Do (2008)
• Indian Exchange Rate Regime (2008)
• The Global Imbalances: What is the Problem? (The Wincott Lecture, 2007/2008)
• Those Current Account Imbalances: A Sceptical View (in The World Economy, 2007)
• The Asian Crisis A Perspective after Ten Years (2007)

Australian Topics

• History of Melbourne University Economics Department(book review, 2010)
• Australian Monetary Policy (Review of book by Ian Macfarlane, 2007)
• Australian Universities: Moscow on the Molonglo (Quadrant 2005)
• The Uncertain Future of Australian Universities (2005)
• 40 Million Aussies: The Immigration Debate Revisited (2003)

Persons

• An Essay in Bobology (about Robert Gregory, 2006)
• Fred Gruen (Biographical essay, 2006)
• Effective Protection and I (2005)
• Harry Gordon Johnson 1923-1977 (The One and Only Harry, 2004)
• Corden on Harry Johnson's View of the Scientific Enterprise (2001)

A Book of Collected Articles

Bibliographies

• Books and Booklets
• International Economics
• Other Economic Theory
• Developing Countries
• Australian Economic Policy
• Persons

How to Contact

Department of Economics
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010 Australia
Fax: 61 3 8344 6899
Tele: 61 3 8344 5296
Email: m.corden@unimelb.edu.au