Books by Lionel Robbins

Lionel Robbins taught at the London School of Economics from 1929 to 1961, directed the economic section of the British War Cabinet during World War II, and served as Chairman of the Financial Times from 1961 until 1970. His best known work is An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He became a life peer in 1959 and a Companion of Honour in 1968. Steven G. Medema is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is the editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, author of Ronald H. Coase, and the coauthor, with Nicholas Mercuro, of Economics and the Law (Princeton). Warren J. Samuels is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Classical Theory of Economic Policy and The Economy as a Process of Valuation and coedits Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology with Jeff E. Biddle.