Lionel Robbins

The Right Honourable The Lord Robbins CH CB FBA
Robbins at the opening of the Lionel Robbins building at the LSE, 27 July 1978
Born	(1898-11-22)22 November 1898 Sipson, Middlesex, England
Died	15 May 1984(1984-05-15) (aged 85) London, England
Academic background
Alma mater	University College London, London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	Edwin Cannan
Influences	William Stanley Jevons, Philip Wicksteed, Ludwig von Mises, Nathan Isaacs
Academic work
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Institutions	London School of Economics
Doctoral students	Nicholas Kaldor Amiya Kumar Dasgupta Abba P. Lerner William Baumol Frank Hahn
Notable ideas	Robbins Report

Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, CH, CB, FBA (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) 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."