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WHAT WAS “IT” THAT ROBBINS WAS DEFINING?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2009

DAVID COLANDER
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A Symposium on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 437 - 448
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2009

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