John R. Commons

Commons, John Rogers - 1862–1945, American economist, b. Hollansburg, Ohio, grad. Oberlin, 1888. Influenced by the other social sciences, Commons tried to broaden the scope of economics, especially in his noted Legal Foundations of Capitalism (1924) and Institutional Economics (1934). He was also interested in immediate social problems, chiefly those dealing with labor, and served on many Read More...

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The Economics of Collective Action
by John R. Commons. 420 pgs.

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Editor's Preface

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John Rogers Commons 1862-1945

Introduction

Part One: Economic Activity

Introduction

Chapter I: Collective Action

Chapter II: Individual Action

Chapter III: Transactions

Chapter IV: Capitalism

Summary: Part One

Part Two: Simplified Assumptions

Introduction

Chapter V: Sovereignty

Chapter VI: Scarcity

Chapter VII: Efficiency

Chapter VIII: Futurity

Chapter IX: Custom

Summary: Part Two

Part Three: Relativities

Introduction

Chapter X: Methods of Investigation

Chapter XI: Valuation: The Economists' Theory of Value

Chapter XII: Strategy of Management And Administration

Chapter XIII: Conciliation and Limitations

Summary: Part Three

Part Four: Public Administration In Economic Affairs

Chapter XIV: Agricultural Administration

Chapter XV: Credit Administration

Chapter XVI: Capital-Labor Administration

Summary: Part Four

Chapter XVII: Concluding Remarks

Appendices

A Bibliography of the Writings Of John R. Commons

Index
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Principles of Labor Legislation
by John R. Commons. 528 pgs.

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Prefatory Note to Third Edition

Editor's Introduction

Preface

Chapter I: The Basis of Labor Law

Chapter II: Individual Bargaining

Chapter III: Collective Bargaining

Chapter IV: The Minimum Wage

Chapter V: Hours of Labor

Chapter VI: Unemployment

Chapter VII: Safety and Health

Chapter VIII: Social Insurance

Chapter IX: Administration

Select Critical Bibliography

Table of Cases Cited

Index
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John R. Commons: Selected Essays
by John R. Commons. 306 pgs.

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John R. Commons is one of the most significant figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the Institutional school, Commons developed theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change which continue to influence modern economics. These volumes collect, for the first time, his major essays and articles.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Christian Minister and Sociology

2: Proportional Representation

3: Progressive Individualism

4: Political Economy and Law

5: Natural Selection, Social Selection, and Heredity

6: The Value of the Study of Political Economy to the Christian Minister

7: The Right to Work

8: A Sociological View of Sovereignty

9: Discussion of the President’s Address

10: Representation of Interests

11: A New Way of Settling Labor Disputes

12: Referendum and Initiative in City Government

13: The Wisconsin Public-Utilities Law

14: Is Class Conflict Growing and is It Inevitable?

15: Tariff Revision and Protection for American Labor

16: American Shoemakers, 1648-1895

17: How Wisconsin Regulates Her Public Utilities

18: The Industrial Commission of Wisconsin

19: Constructive Investigation and the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin

20: Economic Reconstruction: Foreign and Domestic Investments

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22: Unemployment

23: Wage Theories and Wage Policies
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Modern Economic Thought: The American Contribution (Chap. 3 "The Collective Economics Of John R. Commons")
by Allan G. Gruchy. 670 pgs.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Economics in Transition

Chapter 2 The Institutional Economics Of Thorstein Veblen

Chapter 3 The Collective Economics Of John R. Commons

Chapter 4 The Quantitative Economics Of Wesley C. Mitchell

Chapter 5 The Social Economics of John M. Clark

Chapter 6 The Experimental Economics Of Rexford G. Tugwell

Chapter 7 The Administrative Economics Of Gardiner C. Means

Chapter 8 The Emergence of a 20th-Century Political Economy

Bibliography

Index
5.

Trade Unionism and Labor Problems
by John R. Commons. 840 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Part I. Security

II: American Experience with Workmen's Compensation

III: Compulsory Health Insurance In Great Britain

IV: The British National System of Unem Ployment Insurance--Its Operation And Effects

V: Trade-Union Sickness Insurance

VI: Health Program

Part Ii. the Labor Market

VIII: The Men We Lodge

IX: Interstate Migration of Negro Population

X: A Clearing House for Labor

Part Iii. Labor Management

XII: The Problem of Labor Turnover

XIII: Personal Relationship as a Basis Of Scientific Management

XIV: Scientific Managment and Dictatorship Of the Proletariat

XV: Premium and Bonus Systems of Payment

XVI: Protection of Piece Rate

XVII: Nonfinancial Incentives

XVIII: Apprenticeship in the Metal Trades

XIX: Profit-Sharing in the United States

XX: Profit-Sharing in the Baker Manufac Turing Company

XXI: A Plan for Collective Bargaining And CoÖperative Welfare

XXII: Workshop Committees

XXIII: Labor Administration in the Shipbuilding Industry During War Time

Part Iv. Labor Unions

XXV: Tendencies in Trade-Union Development

XXVI: Amalgamation of Related Trades In American Unions

XXVII: The Dominance of the National Union In American Labor Organization

XXVIII: The National Founders' Association

XXIX: The Founders, the Molders, and The Molding Machine

XXX: Collective Bargaining in The Glass--Bottle Industry

XXXI: The San Francisco Building Trades

Xxxii Patternmakers' Local Agreements, Chicago

XXXIII: The Settlement of Disputes Under Agree Ments in the Anthracite Industry

XXXIV: Equalizing Competitive Conditions

XXXV: The Hart Schaffner & Marx Labor Agreement

XXXVI: American Federation of Labor Reconstruc Tion Program

Part V. the Law

Xxxviiii: Hours of Labor and Realism In Constitutional Law

XXXIX: Collective Bargaining Before The Supreme Court

XL: A New Province for Law and Order

XLI: Wage Theories in Industrial Arbitration

XLII: Minimum Wages for Women

XLIII: American Minimum-Wage Laws at Work

XLIV: Operaiton of the Industrial Disputes In Vestigation Act of Canada

XLV: Eight-Hour Shifts by Federal Legislation

Index of Legal Cases Cited
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Races and Immigrants in America
by John R. Commons. 242 pgs.

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Illustrations

References Cited in Footnotes

Chapter I: Race and Democracy

Chapter II: Colonial Race Elements

Chapter III: The Negro

Chapter IV: Nineteenth Century Additions

Chapter V: Industry

Chapter VI: Labor

Chapter VII: City Life, Crime, and Poverty

Chapter VIII: Politics

Chapter IX: Amalgamation and Assimilation

Index
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The Stabilization of Business (Chap. 4 "Unemployment -- Prevention and Insurance" by John R. Commons)
by Wesley C. Mitchell, Irving Fisher, Frank Haigh Dixon. 400 pgs.

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The Stabilization of Business

"Chapter II: Stabilizing the Dollar

Chapter III: Transportation and the Business Cycle

Chapter IV: Unemployment -- Prevention and Insurance

Chapter V: The CoÖrdination of Production and Marketing

Chapter VI: International Problems in Business Stability

Chapter VII: Public Works as an Agency of Control

Chapter VIII: The Psychological Factors in Stabiliza Tion

Chapter IX: The Applied Technique of Stabilization

Index
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John R. Commons and the Special Interest Issue: Not Really Out of Date, in Journal of Economic Issues
by J. Dennis Chasse. 17 pgs.

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Taylorism, John R. Commons, and the Hoxie Report, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Chris Nyland. 32 pgs.

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Holism and Collectivism in the Work of J.R. Commons, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Clive Lawson. 18 pgs.

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Sovereignty in Transaction Cost Economics: John R. Commons and Oliver E. Williamson, in Journal of Economic Issues
by William M. Dugger. 6 pgs.

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Commons and Keynes: Their Assault on Laissez Faire, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Glen Atkinson, Theodore Oleson Jr. 12 pgs.

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John R. Commons: Pioneer of Labor Economics, in Monthly Labor Review
by Jack Barbash. 6 pgs.

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How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Chap. 12 "The Theoretical Manifesto of John Commons")
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. 425 pgs.

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This work questions the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. It argues that theory has to take account of historical context.

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

1: The Limitations of General Theory

2: The Problem of Historical Specificity

Part II: The Nineteenth Century

3: Karl Marx and the Specificity of the Capitalist System

4: The Older Historical School in Germany

5: The Historical School in the British Isles

6: The Methodological Failure of the Older Historical School

7: Out of Austria

8: Alfred Marshall and the British Methodendiskurs

9: The Responses of the Younger Historical School in Germany

Part III: The Twentieth Century

10: Thorstein Veblen and the Foundations of Institutionalism

11: Early American Institutionalism and the Problem of Historical Specificity

12: The Theoretical Manifesto of John Commons

13: Talcott Parsons and the Ascent of A historical Sociology

14: Death and Counter-Revolution at the London School of Economics

15: John Maynard Keynes and His Declaration of a General Theory

16: The Triumph of Barren Universality

17: Institution Blindness and the End of History

Part IV: The Millennium

18: Are There Universals in Social and Economic Theory?

19: Property, Culture, Habits and Institutions

20: Exchange and Production

21: A Note on Social Formations and Levels of Abstraction

22: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Historical Problem

23: Invention is Helpless Without Tradition

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