Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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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