Lionel Robbins on the Principles of Economic Analysis The 1930s Lectures
by Lionel Robbins
- New York, Routledge, 2018.
- xx, 339 pages; illustration: 24 cm.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
PART I 1929-31
INTRODUCTION
1. The framework of economic analysis
2. The conception of equilibrium
GENERAL OUTLINE OF EQUILBRIUM ANALYSIS
3. Equilibrium of simple exchange
4. Equilibrium of simple exchange (continued)
5. Equilibrium of multiple exchange
6. Equilibrium of production: Factors fixed
7. Equilibrium of production: Factors fixed (continued)
8. Production: Factors flexible
9. Production: Factors flexible: labour supply (continued)
10. Equilibrium of production: Factors flexible: material factors
11. Equilibrium of production: Factors flexible: material factors (continued)
12. Interest rates, capitalization & the equilibrum of production through time
13. The supply of material factors (continued)
14. Supply of material factors (continued)
15A. General view of equilibrium theory
15B. Price relationships in the economic equilibrium [1931/2]
SPECIAL TOPICS
16. Consumers surplus
17. The laws of returns
18. Returns and costs
19. Costs: Definitions and the conditions of equilibrium
20. Costs: The supply curve and variations in demand
21. Rent, quasi rent and costs
22. Profits
PART II 1932/3-1934/5
INTRODUCTION
1. Preliminary injunctions
2. Nature of economic analysis
3. The divisions of equilibrium analysis
GENERAL OUTLINE OF EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
4. Valuation and exchange: Individual disposition of goods
5. Valuation and exchange: Simple exchange
6. Production: Introduction
7. Production: Factors fixed (Acapitalistic)
8. Multiple exchange Valuation and exchange: Capitalistic production
9. The theory of interest
10. The theory of capital
PART III 1935/6-1939/40
INTRODUCTION
1. The development of scientific economics
2. XIXth century economics
3. The subject matter of economics (1934/5)
4. Ends and Means
STATICS
5. Valuation and Exchange: Introduction
6. Individual valuation
7. Exchange continued: Barter between two individuals
24. Differences in Demand for particular commodities: A. Commodity Price
25. Differences in Demand for particular commodities: B. Factor Prices
26. Differences in Conditions of Supply: (a) Differences in Commodity Supply
27. Differences in Conditions of Supply: (b) Differences in Commodity Supply (continued)
28. Comparative Statics: Inventions
29. Comparative Statics: Changes in Factor Supply: Labour
30. Comparative Statics: Differences in Capital Supply
DYNAMICS FINAL EDITORIAL NOTE
Lionel Robbins (1898-1984) is best known to economists for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932 and 1935). To the wider public he is well known for the 'Robbins Report' of the 1960s on Higher Education, which recommended a major expansion of university education in Britain. However, throughout his academic career - at Oxford and the London School of Economics in the 1920s, and as Professor of Economics at the School from 1929 to 1961 - he was renowned as an exceptionally gifted teacher. Generations of students remember his lectures for their clarity and comprehensiveness and for his infectious enthusiasm for his subject