Profile Major Works Resources

John Rogers Commons, 1862-1945

Photo of J.R. Commons from McMaster

 American Institutionalist economist, pioneer of labor economics, at Wisconsin.

 

  


top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Major works of John R. Commons

  • The History of Higher Education in Ohio, with G.W. Knight, 1891 [bk]
  • "Diminishing Returns and Distribution (abstract & discussion)", 1893, Pub AEA (Jan), p.101 [js] (discussion by R.T. Ely)
  • The Distribution of Wealth, 1893 [bk]
  • Social Reform and the Church, 1894. [bk]
  • "Taxation in Chicago and Philadephia", 1895, JPE
  • Proportional Representation, 1896. [bk]
  • "A Sociological View of Sovereignty", 1899, American J of Sociology.
  • Capital and Labor in Manufacturing and General Business Pt. 1 & Pt.2, 1901 [= v.7  & v.14 of Reports of the Industrial Commission]
  • Immigration and Education, 1901 (= v.15 of of Reports of the Industrial Commission]
  • "Concentration of Wealth: Its Dangers", 1902, The Independent (May 1) p.1040
  • (Editor) Trade Unionism and Labor Problems, 1905. [bk, av] [1921 ed., av]
  • Races and Immigrants in America, 1907. [bk] [1920 ed]
  • "Tariff Revision and Protection for American Labor", 1908, Annals of AAPSS.
  • "Standardization of Housing Investigations", 1908, Pub ASA (Dec), p.319
  • "American Shoemakers, 1648-1895: A sketch of industrial evolution", 1909, QJE.
  • "Horace Greeley and the Working Class Origins of the Republican Party", 1909, PSQ [offpr]
  • A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, with others, 1910-11.
    • v.1 - Plantation and Frontier, v.1 (ed. U.B. Phillips) [bk]
    • v.2 - Plantation and Frontier, v.2 (ed. U.B. Phillips) [bk]
    • v.3 - Labor Conspiracy Cases, 1806-1842, v.1 (ed. J.R. Commons and E.A. Gilmore) [bk]
    • v.4 - Labor Conspiracy Cases, 1806-1842, v.2 (ed. J.R. Commons and E.A. Gilmore) [bk]
    • v.5 - Labor Movement, 1820-1840, v.1 (ed. J.R. Commons and H.L. Sumner) [bk]
    • v.6 - Labor Movement, 1820-1840, v.2 (ed. J.R. Commons and H.L. Sumner) [bk]
    • v.7 - Labor Movement, 1840-1860, v.1 (ed. J.R. Commons) [bk]
    • v.8 - Labor Movement, 1840-1860, v.2 (ed. J.R. Commons) [bk]
    • v.9 - Labor Movement, 1860-1880, v.1 (ed. J.R. Commons and J.B. Andrews) [bk]
    • v.10 - Labor Movement, 1860-1880, v.2 (ed. J.R. Commons and J.B. Andrews, 1911) [bk]
  • "Organized Labor's Attitude Toward Industrial Efficiency", 1911, AER
  • Labor and Administration, 1913 [bk].[McM]
  • Principles of Labor Legislation with J.B. Andrews, 1916. [bk]
  • Why Workingmen Support the War, 1918 [bk]
  • Who is Paying for the War?, 1918 [bk]
  • "Introduction", p.3, (Editor) History of Labor in the United States, 1918. v.1, v.2
  • "Economic Reconstruction: Foreign and Domestic Investments", 1918, AER
  • Industrial Goodwill, 1919. [bk, av]
  • "Review of the S. and B. Webb's History of Trade Unionism", 1920, AER
  • "The Webbs' Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth", 1921, AER
  • Industrial Government, with others, 1921.[bk,av]
  • "Secular Trend and Business Cycles: A classification of theories" with H.L. MacCracken and W.E. Zeuch, 1922, REStat. [offprint]
  • Legal Foundations of Capitalism, 1924. [McM]
  • "Institutional Economics", 1931, AER [McM]
  • Institutional Economics: Its place in political economy, 1934.
  • Myself, 1934.
  • The Economics and Collective Action, 1950.

HET

 

top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Resources on John Commmons

Contemporary

  • "Review of Commons' Documentary History", by Ernest Bogart, 1911, AER
  • "Review of Commons and Andrews, Principles of Labor Legislation", by George E. Barnett, 1916, AER
  • "Review of Commons et al., History of Labor in the United States", by George E. Barnett, 1919, AER
  • "Review of Commons' Industrial Government", by D. A. McCabe, 1921, AER
  • "John Rogers Commons, 1862-1945" by Selig Perlman, 1945, AER

Modern

 

 
top1.gif (924 bytes)Top
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All rights reserved, Gonçalo L. Fonseca