“Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon”
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Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
British economist, Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins, is renowned for his contributions to the methodology of economics and the defense of the free market economy. He served as a professor at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge, profoundly influencing the development of economics. more
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