First published 1945
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle download at freecapitalists.org.
- Lionel Robbins
- First published
- 1945
- Format
- PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
- Pages
- 177
- License
- Public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
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- Is The Nature and Significance of Economic Science free to download?
- Yes. The complete 177-page PDF, EPUB, and Kindle downloads directly from this page (7.9 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is The Nature and Significance of Economic Science?
- 177 pages, 10 chapters, and about 52,192 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is The Nature and Significance of Economic Science in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote The Nature and Significance of Economic Science?
- Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was one of the leading English economists of the 20th century. He wrote on wages, inflation, the economics of war, and the history of economic thought. This archive holds 6 of Robbins's works.
What's in it
10 chapters · 52,192 words · free to read here
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chapter I: The Subject-Matter of Economics
- Chapter II: Ends and Means
- Chapter III: The Relativity of Economic "Quantities"
- Chapter IV: The Nature of Ecnomic Generalisations
- Chapter V: Economic Generalisations and Reality
- Chapter VI: The Significance of Economic Science
- Index of Authors Cited
- About this edition
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… Mises made a last First Attempt to Win Robbins Back to the Side of Liberty Mises commented on the second edition of Lionel Robbins, The Nature and Significance of Economic Science, in particular on Robbins' use of the word experience.
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Praxeology and Economic Science: I
Lionel Robbins's book, The Nature and Significance of Economic Science, which first appeared in 1932, is nothing but a somewhat watered down version of Mises's description of economics as praxeology, yet it was respected by the economics profession as the …
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In addition, he wrote a great book called Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science which was first published in 1932.
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