...attainment and with the use of the material requisites of well-being." Dagegen schreibt Ch. L. Robbins: „Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." Sehr eng gefaßt ist demgegenüber die Definition von Paul A. Samuelson:...

...constancy by sacrifices in his well-being. If Robbin's definition of political economy be correct — " economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means " (An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 1935, 16) — it is clear that the...

...preponderate in a specific domain of social life (l836: 323). Robbins, in contrast, defined economics as 'the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses' (l932: l5). In Robbins' view, economics is not concerned with production,...

...alludes to a definition of Economics which he had defended in Chapter One. The definition is as follows: "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." Here, we pass over the direct defense of this definition in order to...

...acknowledged. Let us take a few steps backwards and start at Robbins' well-known definition of economics as: the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.2 According to this - now commonly accepted - definition the central concept...

...American Economic Association, New Orleans, December 1986. Lionel Robbins 1898-1984 British economist 1 Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932) 1984:16....

...alternative course of 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 between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses'. However, as most professional economists have long been well aware, attempts...

...(1920), p. 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,...

...hospitable to 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 between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." On Robbins's definition, economics must be fundamentally about the individual....

...hospitable to 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 between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." On Robbins's definition, economics must be fundamentally about the individual....