Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country The Autobiography of Max Corden, Economist /

• Main Author: Corden, Warner Max (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; International economics.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; International Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

Corden has written a charming and insightful account of his professional and personal life, from his childhood in Breslau, Germany, until his retirement in Melbourne. The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers Corden's early life, from a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, to his im...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. The Early Years
• 1. Breslau Boy
• 2. Why Do They Hate Us So Much?
• 3. Uncle Willy: The Jew Who Loved Germany
• 4. The Promised Land: Migrating to the Lucky Country
• 5. My Seven Schools
• 6. How I Became an Economist
• 7. Identity: Becoming Australian
• 8. What Happened to the Levy Family?
• 9. My Lucky Year
• Part II. Being an Academic Economist
• 10. The London School of Economics
• 11. Australian Tariff Policy and the Theory of Protection
• 12. Melbourne and ANU: Nine Productive Years
• 13. Oxford: The Very Best Years
• 14. ANU: Dutch Disease and Other Issues
•  15. International Monetary Fund
• 16. Johns Hopkins: Thirteen Years in Washington DC
• 17. Living in Two Countries
• 18. All About Luck.