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Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (1898 - 1984) was a British economist. He is known for his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. Robbins is famous for his definition of economics A follower of William Stanley Jevons and Philip Wicksteed, he was influenced by the Continental European economists Léon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich Hayek, Friedrich von Wieser and Knut Wicksell. Robbins succeeded Allyn Young in the chair of the London School of Economics in 1929. Among his first appointments was Friedrich A. Hayek, who bred a new generation of English-speaking "continentals" such as John Hicks, Nicholas Kaldor, Abba Lerner and Tibor Scitovsky. Frank Knight was an American influence on Robbins. Robbins was very familiar with the work of economists in Continental Europe. Robbins became involved in the socialist calculation debate on the side of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and against Abba Lerner, Fred Taylor, and Oscar Lange.
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