Political Economy, Past and Present: A Review of Leading Theories of Economic Policy

by Lionel Robbins

Genres: Economics

203 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1976

About the author

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. 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."