Leading Australian Economist

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Original black canvas boards; xiii, [1], 263. Index. Dust jacket. First Edition. Stanley Engerman’s personal copy with his name in fountain pen on the flyleaf. Inscribed by the author on fly leaf: ​“To Stan. With warm thanks. Without you it would have been a longer book. — Max” Very good to near fine. W. 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. Theory of Protection was his first published book and it addresses various mechanisms of international trade — tariffs, export taxes, exchange rates, etcetera and how they may be used to implement policy.