An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science¶
Robbins, L. (1932). An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science.
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- Marginal Analysis
- The methodological framing—that economics is the science of allocating scarce means among competing ends—was canonically articulated by Lionel Robbins (1932)
This sourceMacmillan. Recasts economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses"; grounds scarcity as a relation (not a property), as the founding premise from which allocation, opportunity cost, and price theory follow, and as the source of the deductive entailments of competition and prioritization.
- The methodological framing—that economics is the science of allocating scarce means among competing ends—was canonically articulated by Lionel Robbins (1932)
- Opportunity Cost
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This sourceMacmillan. Recasts economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses"; grounds scarcity as a relation (not a property), as the founding premise from which allocation, opportunity cost, and price theory follow, and as the source of the deductive entailments of competition and prioritization.
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- Resource Management
- The core scarcity framing — that economics, and by extension any allocation discipline, is "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses" — was given its canonical formulation by Robbins (1932).
This sourceMacmillan. Recasts economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses"; grounds scarcity as a relation (not a property), as the founding premise from which allocation, opportunity cost, and price theory follow, and as the source of the deductive entailments of competition and prioritization.
- The core scarcity framing — that economics, and by extension any allocation discipline, is "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses" — was given its canonical formulation by Robbins (1932).
- Scarcity
- Robbins (1932) crystallized this when he recast economics itself as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses," shifting the discipline's center of gravity from the study of particular goods to the study of constraint as such.
This sourceMacmillan. Recasts economics as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses"; grounds scarcity as a relation (not a property), as the founding premise from which allocation, opportunity cost, and price theory follow, and as the source of the deductive entailments of competition and prioritization.
- Robbins (1932) crystallized this when he recast economics itself as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses," shifting the discipline's center of gravity from the study of particular goods to the study of constraint as such.
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