Robbins and colleagues opposed intervention even as fellow conservatives supported it

Evidence

During the early 1930s the London School of Economics became widely known as a center for economists who believed that the government could not contribute to the resolution of the ongoing crisis. Even as leading conservative economists across the Atlantic world advocated for public works and other emergency mea sures, Lionel Robbins and his colleagues dwelled on the dangers of intervention and the absence of quick solutions. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common framing that conservative economics in the Depression uniformly backed austerity/emergency measures — usefully nuances the map of who opposed intervention.