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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).
9 de feb. de 2012 · Almost 80 years ago, Lionel Robbins proposed a highly influential definition of the subject matter of economics: the allocation of scarce means that have alternative ends. Robbins confined his definition to human behavior, and he strove to separate economics from the natural sciences in general and from psychology in particular.
- Peter Shizgal
- 10.3389/fnins.2012.00020
- 2012
- Front Neurosci. 2012; 6: 20.
8 de sept. de 2020 · Having rejected a materialist definition of economics, Robbins articulates his scarcity definition. He writes that human existence is characterized by a desire for various ends (e.g. income, leisure) which is constrained by having only limited resources (e.g. time) with which to pursue these ends.
First is Robbins’s famous all-encompassing definition of economics, still used to define the subject today: “Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between given ends and scarce means which have alternative uses” (p. 16).
This article analyses Robbins's famous definition of economics. It shows that this definition was introduced by the author to solve long-standing problems regarding the subject-matter of the science that were associated with some of the existing definitions.
- Ignacio Falgueras-Sorauren
- 2017
9 de ago. de 2023 · In 1932 Lionel Robbins provided what has become the most commonly cited definition of economics. The aims of this lecture are as follows. 1. To explain the arguments Robbins made in the book in which he provided this definition; 2.
The Robbins Definition: Scarcity Perhaps the most common currently accepted definition of economics stems from Lionel Robbins’s Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932 [1935]), where Robbins (p. 15 [p. 16]) defined economics as “the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce ...
