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LIONEL ROBBINS’S ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE -

75TH ANNIVERSARY

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Lionel Robbins’s Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science.

The Department of Economics at LSE and the editors of Economica have decided to mark this anniversary by a
conference and a special issue of the journal.

      The purpose of this conference is both to renew the

      considerations of Robbins’s theme and reflect on the

      current nature and significance of economic science as well

      as examine Robbins’s own position from a historical

      perspective.

      PAPER SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION:

      The conference will take place at LSE on the 10 & 11 December

      2007. Authors who wish to present a paper should send an

      abstract (no more than 300 words) be E-mail to:

      ec.robbins.conference@lse.ac.uk

      by 31st July 2007.

      Amos Witztum and Frank Cowell

      Conference organizers