light on Robbins' overarching interest on the interplay of economics as a science and political economy as a broader field … Robbins' approach to economics. Specifically, some elements that would resurface in Robbins' later works are identified, and … purpose of illuminating the extent to which the science of economics could serve as an important tool – necessary, though not …

London School of Economics (LSE) from Edwin Cannan and Arnold Plant. The main lesson Coase taught us and insisted upon was … that economics should not be too ‘abstract' and should not rely on a priori categories. He pleaded for more realism in … economics, for a form of ‘political economy': economists should use theory to generalise what facts tell us rather than trying …

As a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), Ronald Coase posed a seemingly naïve question that would, in time …, fundamentally change the face of economics and earn him the Nobel Prize: ‘Why do firms exist?' The import of this simple question … Cost Economics and much of organizational economics more generally. Much has been written of Coase's days as a student at …

. Keynes as Policy Advisor (E. Roy Weintraub); III. Keynes and Economics (Kevin D. Hoover); IV. Keynes and Hayek (Bruce …

. Keynes as Policy Advisor (E. Roy Weintraub); III. Keynes and Economics (Kevin D. Hoover); IV. Keynes and Hayek (Bruce …

maximization framework of neoclassical economics, Buchanan adopted a catallactic perspective. Ethically, Knight argued that all …

Samuelson. Some of his remarks about women in the economy and in economics were famously considered deprecatory. We place them … in the context of the discussions of discrimination in his textbook, Economics, and his interactions with female students …