Commons on the Legal Foundations of Capitalism

John R. Commons is a bewildering person. To him we owe the Documentary Hfistory of American Industrial Society, and a dozen books upon that great group of issues which we call the labor problem. To him we credit a leading part in those social experiments for which his state is famous-experiments in...

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Published in:The American economic review 1924-06, Vol.14 (2), p.240-253
Main Author: Mitchell, Wesley C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Common law
Commons, John R (1862-1945)
Economic analysis
Economic theory
Economic value
Economists
Employment
Judges
Judicial rulings
Scarcity
Studies
Tenants
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Summary:John R. Commons is a bewildering person. To him we owe the Documentary Hfistory of American Industrial Society, and a dozen books upon that great group of issues which we call the labor problem. To him we credit a leading part in those social experiments for which his state is famous-experiments in taxation, industrial relations, minimum wages, and, if he gets his way again, unemployment insurance. From his pupils, now counted by the hundreds, we hear of the restless pioneer who is ever leading his classes away from the familiar fields to the tangled frontier of knowledge where they can scarce keep from getting lost. And from time to time we come upon some brief article in which this historian, reformer, teacher turns theorist and tries to reshape the concepts of orthodox economics so that they may square with the teeming facts of his rich experience.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981