Lionel Robbins Baron Robbins

Tags: Economist.

Lionel Charles Robbins Baron Robbins 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.

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birth date

1898-11-22

birth place

Middlesex, Sipson

death date

1984-05-15

death place

London

depiction description (caption)

Robbins at the opening of the Lionel Robbins building 27 July 1978

influenced

John Hicks, Charles Goodhart

influenced by

Alfred Marshall, Léon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Philip Wicksteed, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, William Stanley Jevons, Knut Wicksell

institution

London School of Economics