Irwin Lipnowski

• ECON 2010 - Microeconomic Theory I
• ECON 2610 - Introduction to Game Theory
• ECON 3374 - Public Expenditure Analysis and Policy Evaluation
• ECON 3742 - Industrial Organization and Firm Strategy
• ECON 7732 - Advanced Microeconomic Theory II

I am a FIDE chess master. I have represented Canada in international chess competitions and I have the title of FM (FIDE Master). Currently, I am not an active competitor. I am very impressed by the high level of skill of players in their teens and early twenties, many of whom reside in India and China. 

Below, is a sample of events in which I represented Canada:

• 2000 - Captain and Coach, Team Canada, World Youth Chess Championship, Oropesa del Mar, Spain.
• 1979 - 1st, Netanya International Chess Tournament, Netanya, Israel.
• 1998 - 33rd International Capablanca Memorial Tournament, Havana, Cuba.
• 1976 - Member, Team Canada, International Chess Olympiad, Haifa, Israel.
• 1974 - Pan American Chess Championship, Winnipeg

• PhD, London School of Economics,1976
• MA (Economics), University of Manitoba,1969
• BA Honours (Economics), University of Manitoba, 1968

Research interests

• Law and economics
• Applied game theory

Books

• Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application (Co-authored with W. Nicholson), First Canadian Edition, 2008, Thomson Nelson Publishers, Toronto, xxiv + 640 pp., Toronto.
• Macroeconomic Conflict and Social Institution (Edited and Co-authored with S. Maital) (1985). Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA.

Journal publications

• “Optimal Public Policy for Government-Operated Gambling” (with A. McWhirter), Journal of Gambling Issues, December 2018, Vol.40, 158-73.
• “A Partial Rehabilitation of the Principle of Collective Punishment”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1993, pp. 121-26.
• “A Reply to Professor Brodeur” (1993). Canadian Journal of Law and Society 8(1), 131-34.
•  “The Coase Theorem and Coalitional Stability,” (with V. Aivazian and J. Callen). (1987) Economica 54, 517-20, reprinted in R Posner and F. Parisi,  Eds, The Coase Theorem, Volume II, Criticisms and Applications (2013) Economic Approaches to Law 37, 207-210, Edward Elgar Publishing House, Cheltenham, U.K.
•  “The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good As The Game of ‘Chicken’” (with S. Maital). (1983).  Journal of Public Economics 20, 381-86.
• “The Design of a Tort Law to Control Accidents,” (with Y. Shilony). (1983). Mathematical Social Sciences 4(1), 103-15.
• “The Economist's Approach to Assessing Compensation for Accident Victims,”. (1979). Manitoba Law Journal 9(3), 319-33.
• “An Adaptation of the Community Indifference Curve to Analyse the Mixed Economy,”. (1979).  Canadian Journal of Economics 12 (4), November, pp. 713-18.
• “An Input-Output Analysis of Environmental Preservation,”. (1976). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 3(3), 205-14.

• 2019, 2000 - Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba

• 2001 - Consultant for Resource Conservation Manitoba 
• 1996 - Consultant for the Public Interest Law Centre, Province of Manitoba, on behalf of Consumers Association of Canada, Manitoba Branch, and Manitoba Society of Seniors at the rate application hearings by Public Utility Board of Manitoba regulatory hearings
• 1996 - Consultant and expert witness representing the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada at regulatory hearings of the Public Utility Board of Manitoba
• 1991-92 - Member of a federal-provincial Environmental Assessment Review Panel that conducted hearings and issued guidelines on environmental and social concerns to be addressed by Manitoba Hydro arising from the proposed ($5.8 billion) Conawapa Hydroelectric Dam and Bipole 3 Project