Microeconomics, Growth and Political Economy

The Selected Essays of Richard G. Lipsey Volume One

Economists of the Twentieth Century series

Richard G. Lipsey, Lipsey Author and Consultant and Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Microeconomics, Growth and Political Economy is the first of two volumes which collect together many of Professor Lipsey’s writings on economics, some of which are previously unpublished or currently inaccessible. This book contains papers on economic growth and technical change, monetary and value theory, the theory of second best, international trade theory, political economy and methodology.

‘Therefore, these four books published by Edward Elgar will be at the reference desks of all good economic libraries. In addition, the book on monopolistic competition and economic geography needs to enter all reading lists on the currently hottest topic in economics.’
– Miroslav N. Jovanovic, Economia Internazionale

‘. . . mention must be made of the autobiographical essay which appears an an introductory chapter in both volumes. This provides an engagingly open summary of the author’s intellectual life and achievements together with many insights about how the essays that follow came to be written.’
– R.E. Bailey, The Economic Journal