| Gary S. Becker - 1976 - 324 頁
...can be brought directly or indirectly into relation with the measuring rod of money" (1962, p. 11). 3 "Economics is the science which studies human behavior...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses," Robbins (1962, p. 16); "Economics ... is the study of the allocation of scarce resources among unlimited... | |
| Bertell Ollman - 1976 - 364 頁
...the ordinary business of life' (Marshall); 'price and its causes and its corollaries' (Davenport) ; 'human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses' (Robbins).3 Marx's preoccupation was different still. In every case we can only comprehend the person's... | |
| Harry G. Johnson - 1982 - 372 頁
...learned, economics had to become once again, in the classic statement of my predecessor in this Chair, "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses'"; for in a fully employed economy total productive capacity again becomes a binding constraint on economic... | |
| R.B. McKenzie - 1982 - 146 頁
...objective external world exists independently of the subjective. "Economics," wrote Lionel Robbins in 1930, "is the science which studies human behavior as a...between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."3 The "economic problem" emerges when the individual pursues subjectively established interests... | |
| Marc H. Bornstein - 1984 - 308 頁
...expression in Lionel (now Lord) Robbins's (1935) famous essay. There. Robbins defined economics as "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses [1935, p. 24]." Explicit mention by Robbins of "human behavior" in fact marked the surgical excision... | |
| Norman O. Brown - 1985 - 396 頁
...practical experience is articulated in one whole school of economic theorists who define economics as the "science which studies human behavior as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." The disposal of scarce means among competing ends— what could be more rational than that? At a more... | |
| Brent D. Ruben - 1985 - 560 頁
...indeed, stress this measure of value, usually money. Robbins' (1945, 16) definition of economics as "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses" suggests that time is a proper subject for economists and, further, that its allocation among alternatives... | |
| David Hamilton - 1970 - 158 頁
...minimum of pain and a maximum of satisfaction. This is what Professor Robbins means when he states that "Economics is the science which studies human behavior...between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."43 Although he claims that "Equilibrium is just equilibrium,"44 the reason for his concern and... | |
| Talcott Parsons - 1991 - 382 頁
...in still another category. 25. It is to be noted that this differs from Robbins's definition (15) as "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." This fails to exclude coercive power as a means of acquisition of scarce means. It fails also to distinguish... | |
| Severyn T. Bruyn, Severyn Ten Haut Bruyn - 1991 - 324 頁
...framework for global investment. The most famous definition of economics has been that of Lionel Robbins: "the science which studies human behavior as a relationship...between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."1 The widely respected economist Paul Samuelson also stated it simply: "How ... we choose to... | |
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