Education
It was his early association with the plethora of socialist movements prevalent in the 1920s Britain that brought him into contact with economics. The L.S.E. attracted the self-taught Lerner largely because of its Fabian associations, but found himself instead in the hands of Lionel Robbins.
ABba Lerner's student career was sheer brilliance. He published several first-rank papers in economic theory and still found time to launch the Review of Economic Studies with Paul Sweezy and Ursula Webb. His 'student' papers catapulted him into the frontlines of the "Paretian revival" of the 1930s which consolidated neo-classical theory.
A six-month stint at Cambridge in 1934-1935 brought him into contact with John Maynard Keynes's "Cambridge Circus".