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Lionel robbins biography
Lionel Robbins
British economist (1898–1984)
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).
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."
Early life
Robbins was born in Sipson, west of London, the son of Rowland Richard Robbins (1872–1960), known as Dick, and his wife Rosa Marion Harris;[1] his father was a farmer, a member of Middlesex County Council involved also in the National Farmers' Union, and the family was Strict Baptist.[2] His sister Caroline became a noted Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College.[3]
Robbins was educated at home, at Hounslow College (a preparatory school) a