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ISBN-10: 1107002443

ISBN-13: 9781107002449

by the point of his loss of life the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) used to be celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made significant contributions to his personal educational self-discipline and utilized his abilities as an economist not just to useful difficulties of monetary coverage – with conspicuous luck whilst he served as head of the economists advising the wartime coalition govt of Winston Churchill in 1940–45 – and of upper schooling – the 'Robbins file' of 1963 – but additionally to the management of the visible and appearing arts that he enjoyed deeply. He used to be dedicated to the London university of Economics, from his time as an undergraduate following energetic carrier as an artillery officer at the Western entrance in 1917–18, via his years as Professor of Economics (1929–62), and his stint as chairman of the governors through the 'troubles' of the overdue Nineteen Sixties. This complete biography, according to his own correspondence and different papers, covers these kind of many and sundry activities.

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