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    Lionel Robbins was a British economist who served as the head of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He is known for proposing a definition of economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." Robbins was influenced by both British economists like Jevons and Wicksteed as well as Continental European economists including Walras, Pareto, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser. In his role at LSE, Robbins succeeded Allyn Young as chair and helped shift Anglo-Saxon economics away from its previous Marshallian direction by appointing economists like Friedrich Hayek.

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    Lionel Robbins was a British economist who served as the head of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He is known for proposing a definition of economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." Robbins was influenced by both British economists like Jevons and Wicksteed as well as Continental European economists including Walras, Pareto, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser. In his role at LSE, Robbins succeeded Allyn Young as chair and helped shift Anglo-Saxon economics away from its previous Marshallian direction by appointing economists like Friedrich Hayek.

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    Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

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    Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

    Robbins at the opening of the Lionel Robbins
    building, 27 July 1978
    Born
    22 November 1898
    Sipson, Middlesex
    Died
    15 May 1984
    London
    Nationality British
    Institution London School of Economics
    School/tradition Neoclassical economics
    Influences
    William Stanley Jevons, Philip
    Wicksteed, Lon Walras, Vilfredo
    Pareto, Eugen von Bhm-Bawerk,
    Friedrich von Wieser, Knut
    Wicksell, Alfred Marshall
    Influenced Charles Goodhart, John Hicks
    Contributions Robbins Report
    Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, CH CB FBA (22 November 1898 15 May 1984) was a British
    economist and head of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He is known for his
    proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its
    Marshallian direction.
    Family and education
    Robbins was born in Sipson, west of London, the son of Rowland Richard (18721960) and Rosa Marion
    Robbins (nee Harris).
    [1]
    His father was a farmer and was also a member of Middlesex county council.
    [2]

    Robbins was educated at the local grammar school, Southall county school. His university education began at
    University College London, but was interrupted by the First World War. He served in the Royal Field Artillery
    as an officer between 1916 and 1918, when he was wounded and returned home. He became interested in guild
    socialism and resumed his studies at the London School of Economics, where he studied with Harold Laski,
    Edwin Cannan and Hugh Dalton.
    [2]

    Theories and influences
    Robbins is famous for his definition of economics:
    "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce
    means which have alternative uses."
    [3]

    A follower of William Stanley Jevons and Philip Wicksteed, he was influenced by the Continental European
    economists: Lon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Eugen von Bhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser and Knut
    Wicksell. Robbins succeeded Allyn Young in the chair of the London School of Economics in 1929. Among
    his first appointments was Friedrich A. Hayek, who bred a new generation of English-speaking "continentals"

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