Decision-making processes and multilayered institutional order: Lionel Robbins’s legacy
挑战对罗宾斯思想的常见误解，揭示其基于个体与集体选择过程及多层次公共制度的复杂社会秩序观，适合关注经济学方法论与制度理论的学者。
Lionel Robbins is mainly known for An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, where he allegedly illustrated the neoclassical epistemology of economics, based on mechanistic maximizing behaviours of atomistic individuals whose aggregation results in the social order. Despite Robbins’s attempts to make it clear that this was not his concept of how the society works, this misrepresentation of his thought perpetuated in the methodological debates of the 1960s and is still dominant today. The aim of the paper is to challenge this caricature and illustrate the complex idea of social order held by Robbins, based on individual and collective processes of choices and a multilayer system of public institutions.