its 14th edition in March 2020 with Alec Chrystal as co-author). His book on growth, co-authored with Kenneth Carlaw and Clifford Bekar, Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth won the 2006 Schumpeter Prize for the best writing on evolutionary economics over the previous two years. He was co-author, with Gordon R. Sparks and Peter O. Steiner, of Economics, a standard Canadian university textbook and now co-authored with Christopher Ragan. Recognition He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Econometric Society. In 2005, he won the gold medal for achievement in research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Personal life Lipsey was the second husband of Assia Gutmann (later Wevill); they had met while she was enrolled in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. They married in 1952 and later divorced. References External links ACT (Adaptation to Climate Change Team) at Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University's City Program has a podcast of a presentation by him called, Buying Happiness: What does the good life cost? Richard Lipsey. "Yes, we saw the climate changing, but what were we to do?" Globe and Mail (BC Edition) October 11, 2007: A27 Heather Scoffield. "The Man Who Wrote The Book" Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition) June 3, 2006: B6. Richard Lipsey/Simon Fraser University. June 4, 2006. Richard Lipsey's Home Page 1928 births Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Essex Canadian economists Canadian university and college faculty deans Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Simon Fraser University faculty Queen's University at Kingston faculty University of British Columbia alumni University of Toronto alumni People from Victoria, British Columbia Fellows of the Econometric Society