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Legal Foundations of Capitalism New issue of 1924 ed Edition
Author(s): John R. Commons (Author)
- Publisher: Augustus m Kelley Pubs
- Publication Date: January 1, 1924
- Edition: New issue of 1924 ed
- Language: English
- Print length: 398 pages
- ISBN-10: 0678008973
- ISBN-13: 9780678008973
Book Description
An exploration of the impact of legal institutions on the evolution of capitalism, particularly the substantive content of the concept of reasonableness. The source and nature of one of Commons’s most explosive concepts–the labor contract–is highlighted in the new preface by Joseph Dorfman. “In … placing jurisprudence at the centre of economic inquiry… He was thereby the inventor of … the economics of law.” M. Blaug Great Economists Before Keynes
