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The Right Honourable
The Lord Robbins
Robbins at the opening of the Lionel Robbins building at the LSE, 27 July 1978
Born(1898-11-22)22 November 1898
Sipson, Middlesex, England
Died15 May 1984(1984-05-15) (aged 85)
London, England
Academic career
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics
Alma materUniversity College London, London School of Economics
Doctoral
advisor
Edwin Cannan
Doctoral
students
Nicholas Kaldor
Amiya Kumar Dasgupta
Abba P. Lerner
William Baumol
Frank Hahn
InfluencesWilliam Stanley Jevons, Philip Wicksteed, Ludwig von Mises, Nathan Isaacs
ContributionsRobbins Report

Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, CH, CB, FBA (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. He is famous for the quote, "Humans want what they can't have."

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National Economic Advisory Council

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