Lionel Charles Robbins, 1898-1984

Denis P O'Brien

Economic Journal, 1988, vol. 98, issue 389, 104-25

Abstract: This article gives an account of the career of Lionel Robbins. It covers his work in the prewar years; his participation in controversies concerning methodolo gy, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics; his time spent as a senior advisor to government during World War II; and his postwar work. The article demonstrates the essential continuity of Robbins's thought in macroeconomics, international economics, and methodology, and deals with his important work in the history of econ omic thought and in public life, especially in connection with the Ro bbins Report. Copyright 1988 by Royal Economic Society.

Date: 1988
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