Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins ( born November 22, 1898 in Sipson, Middlesex; † 15 MAY 1984 London ) was a British economist and long-time head of the Economics Department of the London School of Economics. Is known is his definition of economics as a behavioral science that examine the relationship of goals and scarce resources with alternative uses. ( "Economics is a science Which studies human behavior as a relationship in between ends and scarce Means Which have alternative uses. " )

Robbins took part in the First World War the British artillery and taught since 1925 to 1961 at the LSE. He was a follower of William Stanley Jevons and Philip Wicksteed and was also under the influence of Léon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Eugen von Böhm- Bawerk, Friedrich Hayek, Friedrich von Wieser and Knut Wicksell. Robbins was in 1929 head of the economic department of the LSE and soon overtook Friedrich August von Hayek at his institute. John Richard Hicks, Nicholas Kaldor, Abba Lerner and Tibor Scitovsky came from this school.

Robbins took part in the debate on socialist economic calculation on the side of Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and against Abba Lerner, Fred Taylor, and Oskar Lange.

Robbins had originally come as a resolute opponent of John Maynard Keynes and the Cambridge School economists - he saw the LSE first almost as a bulwark against Keynesianism. Ultimately, however, he accepted - unlike Hayek - the " Keynesian revolution."

In his later years, Robbins turned to the economic history of dogma. He gained great service to the British university system and was knighted in 1959 for Life Peer.

Publications (selection )

  • Principles Of Economics 1923, Economics
  • Dynamics of Capitalism, 1926, Economica
  • An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, London 1932
  • The Great Depression, 1934.
  • Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: A Comment, 1938, EJ.
  • The Economic Causes of War, 1939.
  • The Economic Problem in Peace and War, 1947.
  • The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy, 1952.
  • Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics, 1958.
  • Politics and Economics, 1963.
  • The University in the Modern World, 1966.
  • The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought, 1968.
  • Jacob Viner: A tribute, 1970.
  • The Evolution of Modern Economic Theory, 1970.
  • Autobiography of an Economist, 1971.
  • A History of Economic Thought: the LSE Lectures, edited by Warren J. Samuels and Steven G. Medema, 1998.
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