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Lionel Robbins

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Description for Lionel Robbins hardcover. Biography of a major twentieth-century English economist who was a key player in the development of economics as an academic subject. Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics. Num Pages: 1176 pages, 30 b/w illus. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 69. Weight in Grams: 1680.
By the time of his death the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made major contributions to his own academic discipline and applied his skills as an economist not only to practical problems of economic policy – with conspicuous success when he served as head of the economists advising the wartime coalition government of Winston Churchill in 1940–45 – and of higher education – the 'Robbins Report' of 1963 – but also to the administration of the visual and performing arts that he loved deeply. He was devoted to the London School of Economics, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
1176
Condition
New
Series
Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Number of Pages
1176
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107002449
SKU
V9781107002449
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About Susan Howson
Susan Howson is Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto. She was educated at the London School of Economics (1964–1969) and at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD in 1975. She has held visiting positions in the International Division of the Bank of England (1979–1981); Nuffield College, Oxford (1984–1985); and Wolfson College, Cambridge ... Read more

Reviews for Lionel Robbins
'This impressive biography opens a window into the life of the person who was at the centre of the economics profession in Britain for four decades. It will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand what happened to British economics in the twentieth century.' Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham 'Sue Howson has produced the definitive account of ... Read more

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