Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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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