Richard George Lipsey, OC FRSC (born August 28, 1928) is a Canadian academic and economist.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Arts degree in 1953 from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in 1956 from the London School of Economics, where he studied under thesis director and future Nobel Prize winner James Meade.
Returning to Canada, he held a brief position as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, before being appointed the Sir Edward Robert Peacock professor of economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1970.
Recently Lipsey co-edited with William Scarth a three volume compilation of many of the most important articles on the Phillips curve.
Lipsey was the second husband of Assia Gutmann (later Wevill); they had met while she was enrolled in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.