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Lionel Robbins

1898 - 1984

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Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lionel Robbins is the 63rd most popular economist (up from 169th in 2019), the 736th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,549th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lionel Robbins ranks 63 out of 414. Before him are Werner Sombart, Theodore Schultz, Frédéric Bastiat, Reinhard Selten, Douglass North, and William Vickrey. After him are Wang Anshi, Bernard Mandeville, Franco Modigliani, Lawrence Klein, Kenneth Arrow, and Robert Mundell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Lionel Robbins ranks 42. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt, Joseph Murphy, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Aloysius Stepinac, Peng Dehuai, and Kenji Mizoguchi. After him are Ahmad Shah Qajar, Héctor Scarone, Konrad Henlein, Fritz Zwicky, Howard Florey, and Jeanne Hébuterne. Among people deceased in 1984, Lionel Robbins ranks 29. Before him are Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Janaki Ammal, Karl Wolff, Anna Anderson, and Sam Peckinpah. After him are Jiro Miyake, Stanley Milgram, Oleg Antonov, Philippe Ariès, Vincent J. McMahon, and Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lionel Robbins ranks 736 out of 8,785. Before him are James Edward Smith (1759), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Robert II of Scotland (1316), and William Beckford (1760). After him are Henry Fielding (1707), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Robert Carlyle (1961), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), and John Russell Hind (1823).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Lionel Robbins ranks 11. Before him are John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), John Hicks (1904), William Petty (1623), and Ronald Coase (1910). After him are Benjamin Graham (1894), Beatrice Webb (1858), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Richard Stone (1913), John A. Hobson (1858), and James Meade (1907).

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