Patrick Grady

Patrick Grady was born in New York City, and raised in Danville, Illinois. After completing a Ph.D. in economics at the University Toronto, he worked in Canada for the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance. After leaving the Canadian Government, he was an economic consultant in Canada and in over 35 countries overseas for the World Bank, U.S. Treasury Department, and the IMF. He has written widely on economic policy, macroeconomics,and public finance in scholarly journals and the Canadian popular press. He now resides in Punta Gorda, Florida. Grady's non-fiction books or monographs include: "The State of the Art in Canadian Macroeconomic Modelling" (Department of Finance,1985); The Economic Consequences of Quebec Sovereignty (Fraser Institute, 1991); "Dividing the House: Preparing for a Canada without Quebec," with Alan Freeman (Harper Collins Canada, 1995); and "Seattle and Beyond: The WTO Millennium Round," with Katie Macmillan (1995); "The State of Economics in Canada: Festschrift in Honour of David Slater," with Andrew Sharpe (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001); and "Florida Dreams: All About the Amazing Rise of the Sunshine Mega-State (2019). Grady has also written three novels. The first about the Vietnam War is entitled "Through the Picture Tube" (Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2000). The second called "The Jade Head" (Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2004) is an adventure story that takes place in Belize. The most recent, "Royal Canadian Jihad," is about the threat of Islamic terrorism in Canada.