Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. He is famous for the quote, "Humans want what they can't have."
- Occupation
- economist, politician
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- November 22, 1898
