An economic theory of central places

BC Eaton, RG Lipsey - The economic journal, 1982 - academic.oup.com
… revised version of Eaton and Lipsey (1979 a). … Lipsey, 1975) we showed that Hotelling's
explanation of clustering is applicable only to duopolies. In the second paper (Eaton and Lipsey, …

The general theory of second best

RG Lipsey, K Lancaster - The review of economic studies, 1956 - academic.oup.com
There is an important basic similarity underlying a number of recent works in apparently widely
separated fields of economic theory. Upon examination, it would appear that the authors …

The theory of customs unions: Trade diversion and welfare

RG Lipsey - Economica, 1957 - JSTOR
In his book The Customs Union Issue Professor Viner draws the distinction between the
trade-creating and the trade-diverting effects of a customs union. In any theory of customs …

[BOOK][B] Economic transformations: general purpose technologies and long-term economic growth

RG Lipsey, KI Carlaw, CT Bekar - 2005 - books.google.com
This book examines the long term economic growth that has raised the West's material
living standards to levels undreamed of by counterparts in any previous time or place. The …

The theory of customs unions: A general survey

RG Lipsey - The economic journal, 1960 - academic.oup.com
THIS paper is devoted mainly to a survey of the development of customsunion theory from
Viner to date; since, however, the theory must be meant at least as an aid in interpreting real-…

The relation between unemployment and the rate of change of money wage rates in the United Kingdom, 1862-1957: a further analysis

RG Lipsey - Economica, 1960 - JSTOR
In an earlier paper in this journal, Professor Phillips2 has advanced the hypothesis that the
percentage rate of change of money wage rates in the United Kingdom (W) can be explained …

[BOOK][B] First principles of economics

RG Lipsey, C Harbury - 1992 - books.google.com
… One place where re-ordering has brought a rich reward is in the treatment of microeconomic
… We should also like to thank Diana Lipsey for reading the text, and Robyn Willis for coping …

Successes and failures in the transformation of economics

RG Lipsey - Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
While acknowledging the successes of modern economics, this paper concentrates on some
shortcomings. Many are traced to a single source: the great insights of economics are all …

Reflections on the general theory of second best at its golden jubilee

RG Lipsey - International Tax and Public Finance, 2007 - Springer
The origin of the second best article is described and criticisms assessed. Distortions making
impossible the achievement of either first or second best optima are outlined. Attempts to …

[PDF][PDF] Clusters and economic policy

C Bekar, RG Lipsey - Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2001 - researchgate.net
Economists have increasingly come to accept Joseph Schumpeter’s message that endogenous
technological change is the most important source of long term economic growth 1. One …