Quote of the day
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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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