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
Died
15 May 1984(1984-05-15) (aged 85)
London, England
Academic career
Institution
London School of Economics
School or tradition
Neoclassical economics
Alma mater
University College London, London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor
Edwin Cannan
Doctoral students
Nicholas Kaldor Amiya Kumar Dasgupta Abba P. Lerner William Baumol Frank Hahn
Influences
William Stanley Jevons, Philip Wicksteed, Ludwig von Mises, Nathan Isaacs
Contributions
Robbins 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."
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...
us in limited quantity'." — Guido Montani (1987) British economist LionelRobbins is famous for his definition of economics which uses scarcity: "Economics...
1890's and it became popular economical thought by elaborations of LionelRobbins in the 1930s. In essence, positive economics studies what is rather...
over 12,000 registered external users each year. It is housed in the LionelRobbins Building. The library is located on the London School of Economics (LSE)...
Keynes from Cambridge and the LSE's Friedrich Hayek. The LSE economist LionelRobbins was also heavily involved. Starting off as a disagreement over whether...
on the other, and more important side, a part of the study of man. LionelRobbins (1932) developed implications of what has been termed "[p]erhaps the...
LionelRobbins' Essay (1932, 1935, 2nd ed., 158 pp.) sought to define more precisely economics as a science and to derive substantive implications. Analysis...
Defining Economics: the Long Road to Acceptance of the Robbins Definition (PDF). LionelRobbins's essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science...
definition has been criticized by more recent economists, including LionelRobbins. Robbins' criticisms include: (1)Narrows down the scope of economics. Marshall...
Patrick Gardiner and Stephen Gardiner. Gwen Gardiner Iris Robbins, wife of LionelRobbins. Phyllis Gardiner Gilbert Gardiner Prophets, Priests and Kings...
faculty of the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1931 at the behest of LionelRobbins. Upon his arrival in London, Hayek was quickly recognised as one of...
tends to increase total utility (however measured) in the society. But LionelRobbins (1935, ch. VI) argued that how or how much utilities, as mental events...
key point, here you had the Austrians sitting in London, Hayek and LionelRobbins, and saying you just have to let the bottom drop out of the world. You've...
Autobiography of an Economist, LionelRobbins, Baron Robbins, Palgrave Macmillan, 1971, p. 11 Howson, Susan (2011). LionelRobbins. Cambridge University Press...
Marshallianism. This period was only to last, however, until his protégé, LionelRobbins, took over with his more "Continental" ideas. Though Cannan, in his...
the subject. The classic brief definition of economics, set out by LionelRobbins in 1932, is "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...
aggregate. In contrast many twentieth century economists, following LionelRobbins, questioned whether such measures of utility could be measured, or even...
Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus London United Kingdom 1999 2001 LionelRobbins Building renovation, British Library of Political and Economic Science...
size of the overdraft in surplus), the surplus would be confiscated. LionelRobbins reported that "it would be difficult to exaggerate the electrifying...
H. Cole, Hugh Dalton, Maynard Keynes, A. C. Pigou, Colin Clark and LionelRobbins. Maddison, Angus. "Macromeasurement Before and After Colin Clark" (PDF)...
236H. doi:10.1134/S0202289317030069. ISSN 1995-0721. S2CID 125980981. LionelRobbins (1935, 2nd ed.) An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic...
Economics and Public Finance, University of Manchester, England 17 LionelRobbins Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics 18 Edward A. Shils Professor...
ultimately said that Hayek's economic philosophy could lead to disaster. LionelRobbins agreed with Hayek's emphasis on the non-rational element in social habits...
the theory, that scarcity of capital causes crises, must be wrong". LionelRobbins, who had embraced the Austrian theory of the business cycle in The Great...
spectrum, including F.A. Hayek, J. B. Priestley, H. N. Brailsford, LionelRobbins and Arnold Toynbee. In 1956 it argued for British participation in the...
economics. A definition that captures much of modern economics is that of LionelRobbins in a 1932 essay: "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...