Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Quotes

• Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Views, Choices, Conflict

  "An essay on the nature & significance of economic science".

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• Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Doubt, Democracy, Liberty

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Jargon, Envelopes, Way

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