ABSTRACT
In 1932, the English economist Lionel Robbins, professor at the London School of Economics, published “An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science”, a fundamental contribution to methodology in the history of modern economics. It is the work in which the conception of economics, developed in the period of the marginalist or neoclassical revolution and then reorganized along non-utilitarian lines essentially by Vilfredo Pareto, “is defined with the maximum of awareness about the nature of the scientific work earlier conducted” (Napoleoni 1973: 104).
