Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

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Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. He is famous for the quote, "Humans want what they can't have."

British - Economist | November 22, 1898 - May 15, 1984

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Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

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