A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

@article{Robbins1999AHO,
  title={A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures},
  author={Lionel Robbins and Steven G. Medema and William J. Baumol and Warren J. Samuels},
  journal={Southern Economic Journal},
  year={1999},
  volume={65},
  pages={965}
}
These lectures, delivered at the London School of Economics between 1979 and 1981 and tape-recorded by Robbins's grandson, display his mastery of the intellectual history of economics and his enthusiasm for the subject. They cover a broad chronological range, beginning with Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, focusing extensively on Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and the classicals, and finishing with a discussion of moderns and marginalists from Marx to Alfred Marshall. Robbins takes a varied and… 
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