Introduction Of Robbins
Prof Lionel Robbins
Robbins definition of Economics challenged Dr. Marshall definition of Economics which was a major improvement over the definition of Adam Smith and other ancient Economists. Before Prof. Lionel Robbins, Prof. Marshall tried to give complete and faultless definition of economics. At that time people started thinking that the Economic Science has completely develop and matured. But in 1932, after the publication of Prof. Robbins’s book An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Social Science, a controversy roused in the field of Economics. He tried to give economics another shape, apart from material welfare. In the words of Robbins
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relation between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
