This book is the first to reinterpret John R. Commons's Institutional Economics with a newly discovered manuscript written in 1927 in order to find its contempo

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: "My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory

J. Fagg Foster (1907-1985) was one of the most significant creators of institutionalist economic theory in the twentieth century. He wrote and taught in the Ame

John R. Commons is one of the most significant figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the Institutional school, Commons develo