Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
John R. Commons
Born: October 13, 1862
Died: May 11, 1945 (aged 82)
Bio: John Rogers Commons was an American institutional economist, Georgist, progressive and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Known for:
- Legal foundations of capitalism (1924)
- Races and immigrants in America (1907)
- Industrial goodwill (1919)
- History of labour in the United States (1918)
- Social reform and the church (1894)
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