| Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...macroeconomics, has now largely been supplanted by that of Lionel Robbins (1935, p. 16): "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." On Robbins's definition, economics must be fundamentally about the individual. Modern macroeconomics... | |
| Paul Webley - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...The central concept usually deployed here is scarcity: as Robbins (1932, p. 16) wrote 'Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses'. Economists do not need to confine themselves to those domains we traditionally think of as 'economic'... | |
| Wilfred Beckerman, Joanna Pasek - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 229
...action. After all, Lionel Robbins's (1935: 16) famous definition of economics was that 'Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses'. However, as most professional economists have long been well aware, attempts to move from a more or... | |
| Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...1. Modern economists almost all follow the much different definition of Lionel Robbins: Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.12 Economics is, in Robbins's view, the science of choice. Economics is, in modern terminology,... | |
| Henry J. Bruton - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...that first stated by Lionel Robbins (1935, 16): "Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." This definition has of course found its way into countless texts and treatises over the years since Robbins's book... | |
| Kris Hinterseer - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...laundering as a link between the formal and informal economies. Lord Robbins once commented, "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." Drawing on this observation, and building on Luciano's statement, we extract money laundering from... | |
| Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...which hold between humans and economic goods. In Lionel Robbins' much cited definition, 'Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."' These are laws of such general character that they must apply m all periods of history and to all forms... | |
| David M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning, Louis W. Pauly - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...which most present-day economists subscribe: "Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." In more modern terminology, economics is defined by economists as a universal science of decision-making... | |
| Bai Gao - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...character, Japanese economic ideology is certainly not a "pure science" that "studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses" (Robbins 1935); rather, it is integral, or a mixture of what Thomas Rohlen (1974) calls the "logic... | |
| Nicola Giocoli - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...of economics from the object to the form of economic behavior. Indeed, with his famous definition of economics as 'the science which studies human behaviour...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses' (Robbins 1935, 16), Robbins made it easier to represent the economic problem - namely, the influence... | |
| |