Abstract
Commons was born on 13 October 1862 in Hollandsburg, Ohio, and died on 11 May 1945 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He studied at Oberlin College (BA, 1888) and Johns Hopkins University (1888–90). He taught at Wesleyan, Oberlin, Indiana, Syracuse, and Wisconsin (1904–32).
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- American Association for Labor Legislation
- American Economic Association
- Capitalism
- Collective action
- Commons, J. R.
- Fisher, I.
- Institutional economics
- Methodological individualism
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- New deal
- Trade unions
- Veblen, T
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Samuels, W.J. (2018). Commons, John Rogers (1862–1945). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_656
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