Microeconomics, Fourteenth Canadian Edition (14th Edition)

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An indispensable reference for students enrolled in any business and economics program, Ragan: Economics builds on a rich legacy of success in teaching and learning. Ragan: Economics provides students with an introduction to the major issues facing the world’s economies, to the methods that economists use to study those issues, and to the policy problems that those issues create.

Christopher Ragan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University in Montreal. In addition, he holds the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto where he helps to direct the Institute’s research and publication program on monetary policy. From January 2009 through June 2010, he was the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance in Ottawa, where he served as a senior advisor to the Minister and other senior Finance officials. In the 2004-05 academic year, he served as the Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada. For several years (with a few breaks for his stints in Ottawa) he has been a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council.

Since his appointment to McGill in 1989, Chris Ragan has taught a wide variety of courses, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and in 2007 he was awarded the Noel Fieldhouse teaching prize in the Faculty of Arts. His passion for teaching extends also to his writing. Ragan is the co-author with Richard Lipsey of Economics, which after thirteen editions is still the most widely used introductory economics textbook in Canada.

Ragan’s academic research focuses on the role of economic policy, especially pertaining to macroeconomics. He has published several articles in academic and policy journals including Economica, Labour Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Business Economics, Policy Options, and the Bank of Canada Review. His 2004 book, co-edited with his McGill colleague William Watson, is called Is the Debt War Over? Dispatches from Canada’s Fiscal Frontline. In 2007 he published A Canadian Priorities Agenda, co-edited with Jeremy Leonard and France St-Hilaire from the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Chris Ragan frequently writes economic columns for newspapers, including the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, and the National Post Magazine, and during the mid 1990s he was the Editor-in-Chief of World Economic Affairs. Ragan teaches microeconomics regularly for McKinsey & Company, a leading international consulting firm, and also teaches in McGill’s Executive MBA program and in EDHEC’s MBA program in Nice, France.

Ragan received his Bachelor’s degree in economics in 1984 from the University of Victoria and his Master’s degree in economics from Queen’s University in 1985. He then moved to Cambridge, MA, where he completed his Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. in 1989. See his personal website at McGill for downloads of his published research as well as his magazine editorials and articles: