How I Became an Economist

Warner Corden

Chapter 6 in Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country, 2017, pp 63-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How did I become an economist and not a historian? At school I liked history best, but when it came to choosing a university field, my father said, “No. You can read history in the evenings. Commerce will give you a choice of jobs”. The commerce degree at the University of Melbourne involved a lot of economics, and that is how I got into economics. Blame my father! I also learnt how to overcome shyness and thus how to speak as a teacher. That story is in this chapter.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65166-8_6

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