1st Edition

John R. Commons: Selected Essays Volume 2

Edited By Malcolm Rutherford, Warren Samuels Copyright 2004

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

    Essays 24 Hobsons' Economics of Unemployemnt (1923) to Essay 40 Legislative and Administraive Reasoning in Economics (1942). Index.

    Biography

    Malcom Rutherford is a Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  Warren J. Smith is a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, US.