Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)
Most used words:
John R. Commons Quotes