ECONOMIST

Lionel Robbins

1898 - 1984

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Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lionel Robbins has received more than 500,115 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Lionel Robbins is the 169th most popular economist (up from 172nd in 2019), the 1,548th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,595th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Economist.

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  • 500k

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  • 56.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lionel Robbins ranks 169 out of 414. Before him are Piero Sraffa, Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Henry George, Henry Sidgwick, and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay. After him are Wilhelm Röpke, Pierre Leroux, George Shultz, Walter Eucken, Lars Peter Hansen, and Gustave de Molinari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Lionel Robbins ranks 92. Before him are Michel de Ghelderode, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, Grace Moore, Randolph Scott, and Joseph Kessel. After him are Achille Van Acker, Karl Mauss, Jacob Tullin Thams, Elazar Shach, Jean Fautrier, and Kang Sheng. Among people deceased in 1984, Lionel Robbins ranks 75. Before him are George Gallup, Trygve Bratteli, Louis Réard, Faina Ranevskaya, Kim Sung-gan, and Richard Brautigan. After him are El Santo, Walter Tevis, Fikret Amirov, Josyf Slipyj, Vladimir Chelomey, and Christa Schroeder.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lionel Robbins ranks 1,548 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack W. Szostak (1952), Karen Armstrong (1944), William Walton (1902), Henry Tandey (1891), James Dyson (1947), and David Icke (1952). After him are Norman Davies (1939), Boy George (1961), John Maynard Smith (1920), Dick Taylor (1943), Willehad (735), and Eglantyne Jebb (1876).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Lionel Robbins ranks 25. Before him are James Meade (1907), Angus Deaton (1945), Clive Granger (1934), James Mirrlees (1936), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), and Henry Sidgwick (1838). After him are Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Oliver Hart (1948), Harold Laski (1893), Israel Kirzner (1930), John A. Hobson (1858), and Robert Torrens (1780).

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