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Warner Winslow Gardner’s The Institutional Theory of John R. Commons (1933)

2011

HistoryPolymers and PlasticsSettore SECS-P/04 - Storia Del Pensiero EconomicoINSTITUTIONALISMLAW AND ECONOMICSBusiness and International ManagementCOMMONS JOHN ROGERSIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSSRN Electronic Journal
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John Roger Commons, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld and the Origins of Transactional Economics

2010

The aim of this paper is to provide an assessment of John R. Commons’ adoption of Wesley N. Hohfeld’s framework of jural opposites and correlatives in order to construct his transactional approach to the study of institutions. Hohfeld’s influence on Commons, it is argued, was both positive and negative. On the one hand, Commons, followed Hohfeld and recognized that such concepts as property and inheritance actually represent an aggregation of numerous types of legal relations. Hohfeld’s schema provided a powerful rhetorical and analytical tool whereby these highly abstracts conceptions could be reduced to a limited number of primary elements. Moreover, Hohfeld’s schema appeared to be consis…

LAW AND ECONOMICS INSTITUTIONALISM JOHN ROGERS COMMONS
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