John R. Commons: Selected Essays

by Malcolm Rutherford (Editor), Warren Samuels (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134775569
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/10/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
File size:	803 KB

About the Author

Malcolm Rutherford is a Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research has focused on the major contributors to the American institutionalist tradition in economics, including Veblen, Commons, Mitchell and Ayres, and on the comparison of the old and new institutional economics. He is the author of Institutions in Economics: The Old and the New Institutionalism. Warren J. Samuels is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He specializes in the history of economic thought, methodology, and law and economics. He is past president of the History of Economics Society and the Association for Social Economics, and the recipient of the Veblen-Commons Award of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. He is the author of The Classical Theory ofEconomic Policy and Pareto on Policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER AND SOCIOLOGY (1892), 2 PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (1894), 3 PROGRESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM (1895), 4 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND LAW (1896), 5 NATURAL SELECTION, SOCIAL SELECTION, AND HEREDITY (1897), 6 THE VALUE OF THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER (1898), 7 THE RIGHT TO WORK (1899), 8 A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW OF SOVEREIGNTY (1899-1900), 9 DISCUSSION OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS (1900), 10 REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS (1900), 11 A NEW WAY OF SETTLING LABOR DISPUTES (1901), 12 REFERENDUM AND INITIATIVE IN CITY GOVERNMENT (1902), 13 THE WISCONSIN PUBLIC-UTILITIES LAW (1907), 14 IS CLASS CONFLICT GROWING AND IS IT INEVITABLE? (1908), 15 TARIFF REVISION AND PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN LABOR (1908), 16 AMERICAN SHOEMAKERS, 1648-1895: A SKETCH OF INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION (1909), 17 HOW WISCONSIN REGULATES HER PUBLIC UTILITIES (1910), 18 THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN (1911), 19 CONSTRUCTIVE INVESTIGATION AND THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN (1913), 20 ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS (1918), 21 THE WEBBS' CONSTITUTION FOR THE SOCIALIST COMMONWEALTH (1921), 22 UNEMPLOYMENT: COMPENSATION AND PREVENTION (1921), 23 WAGE THEORIES AND WAGE POLICIES (1923), VOLUME II, 24 HOBSON'S ECONOMICS OF UNEMPLOYMENT(1923), 25 THE DELIVERED PRICE PRACTICE IN THE STEEL MARKET (1924), 26 LAW AND ECONOMICS (1925), 27 THE PASSING OF SAMUEL GOMPERS (1925), 28 THE STABILIZATION OF PRICES AND BUSINESS (1925), 29 THE TRUE SCOPE OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (1925), 30 MARX TODAY: CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM (1925), 31 PRICE STABILIZATION AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (1927), 32 RESERVE BANK CONTROL OF THE GENERAL PRICE LEVEL: A REJOINDER (1927), 33 LEGAL AND ECONOMIC JOB ANALYSIS (with E. W. Morehouse) (1927), 34 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS (1931), 35 THE PROBLEM OF CORRELATING LAW, ECONOMICS AND ETHICS (1932), 36 THE PLACE OF ECONOMICS IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (1935), 37 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS (1936), 38 CAPACITY TO PRODUCE, CAPACITY TO CONSUME, CAPACITY TO PAY DEBTS (1937), 39 TWENTIETH CENTURY ECONOMICS (1939), 40 LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REASONING IN ECONOMICS (1942), Index