happened to political economy ever since, and how far economics has diverged from Robbins' agenda. Our main claim is that these … topics appeared on the second edition of the Essay because Robbins saw them as fundamental if economics (as a science) were … to mimic the methods of the natural sciences by preserving the human element that makes economics a social science …

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …

obsession. Trained in the late 1920s and early 1930s at the London School of Economics, where indifference and even antipathy … economics generally and certain of his (“Marshallian”) Chicago colleagues in particular. Coase's affinity for Marshall, whom he …. This paper examines Coase's biographical work on Marshall and his discussions of Marshall's economics for clues as to the …