ROBBINS LIONEL CHARLES 1898-1984 BARON ROBBINS PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

Lectures given by Lionel Robbins at LSE on the History of Economic Thought from Plato to Alfred Marshall.

Lionel Charles Robbins 1898 - 1984

Robbins was educated at Southall County School, University College, London, and London School of Economics. Robbins was initially a Lecturer at London School of Economics, 1925-27, then Professor Economics 1929 - 1961. He was also a Fellow and Lecturer at New College, Oxford 1927 - 1929. Robbins was Chairman of the Financial Times 1961 - 1970, Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education 1961 - 1964, and a member of the Court of Governors at the London School of Economics (Chairman 1968 - 1974). From 1941 - 1945 he was Director of the Economic Section of Offices of the War Cabinet 1941 - 1945, and from 1954 to 1955 he was President of the Royal Economic Society. He was also a member of the Court of Governors, London School of Economics, (Chairman, 1968-74). Robbins was also a Trustee of the National Gallery, 1952 - 1959, 1960-67, 1967-74, and for the Tate Gallery, 1953 - 1959, 1962 - 1967. From 1955 to 1981 he was Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and President of the British Academy 1962 - 1967.

His publications include:

• Autobiography of an economist (1971)
• The balance of payments (1951)
• Economic aspects of Federation (1941)
• The economic basis of class conflict: and other essays in political economy (1939)
• Economic planning and international order (1937)
• The economist in the twentieth century, and other lectures in political economy (1954)
• An essay on the nature and significance of economic science (1932)
• Higher education (1963)
• A history of economic thought: the LSE lectures (1998)
• The international monetary problem (1935)
• The international monetary problem (1952)

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