Dr. Richard G. Lipsey is currently professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University and Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and member of their large-scale, international research project on Economic Growth and Policy. He is an officer of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Econometric Society and a past president of the Canadian Economic Society and the Atlantic Economic Society. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of McMaster, Victoria, Carleton, Queen's, Toronto, Guelph, Western Ontario, Essex (England) and UBC. Dr. Lipsey received his B.A. from UBC. in 1951, M.A. from Toronto in 1953 and PhD from London School of Economics in 1957. He has held a chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and was chairman of the Department of Economics and dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the new University of Essex, England from 1964 to 1970. He has held visiting appointments at seven Universities in England, the United States and Canada. From 1970 to 1986, he was Sir Edward Peacock professor of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He has served as an independent policy advisor to many national organizations in both the UK and Canada. In 1976, he wrote the economic brief that the Canadian Labour Congress presented to the Supreme Court of Canada as part of their appeal against setting up the Anti-Inflation Board (A.I.B.). This was the first time in history that the Supreme Court accepted, and responded to, expert evidence. He is a frequent commentator on economic policy issues in Canada and in 1982 received, along with D. Purvis, the National Business Writing Award "for distinguished financial writing by Canadians who are not primarily journalists". From 1983, until January 1989, he was senior economic advisor for the C.D. Howe Institute where he coauthored monographs on Canada's Trade Options and on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and wrote over a dozen journal articles and pamphlets on various aspects of the free-trade debate. He also edited the Institute's Inflation and Trade Monitors. Dr. Lipsey has authored several textbooks in economics that are used widely in North America and the U.K. His introductory texts have been translated into fourteen foreign languages. He has published over 150 articles in learned journals and books on various aspects of theoretical and applied economics. Recently three volumes of his selected essays have been published by Edward Elgar Publishers in the U.K.--Author's Website biography