Warner Max Corden AC (13 August 1927 – 21 October 2023) 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. He was also active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics. Corden, originally German, emigrated from Nazi Germany to Melbourne in 1939. Corden died on 21 October 2023, at the age of 96.

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. 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.

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