Colander, David C. - 2007
COLLEGE ECONOMICS DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 07-06
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT 05753 …
Middlebury College
Abstract
This paper argues that Robbins’ famous definition of economics was of “economic science …”
which he saw as only a narrow branch of the field of economics. Moreover, it was descriptive,
not prescriptive, and was …