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The economics of collective action [by] John R. Commons. Edited with introduction and supplementary essay by Kenneth H. Parsons. With a biographical sketch by Selig Perlman.

By:

Commons, John R. (John Rogers), 1862-1945 [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.Description: xxi, 382 pages, 23 cmISBN:

0299053601

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DDC classification:

330.1

LOC classification:

HB 171 .C77 1970

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Partial contents:

Part I. Economic activity - Chapter i. Collective action - Chapter ii. Individual action - Chapter iii. Transactions - Chapter iv. Capitalism -- Part II. Simplified assumptions - Chapter v. Sovereignty - Chapter vi. Scarcity - Chapter vii. Efficiency - Chapter viii. Futurity - Chapter ix. Custom -- Part III. Relativities - Chapter x. Methods of investigation - Chapter xi. Valuation: The economists' theory of value - Chapter xii. Strategy of management and administration - Chapter xiii. Conciliation and limitations -- Part IV. Public Administration in economic affairs - Chapter xiv. Agricultural administration - Chapter xv. Credit administration - Chapter xvi. Capital-labor administration --

Summary: "Here [the author] attempts to expound, for the first time, in simple terms, the basic ideas which he developed through sixty years as a participants observer in American economic life... [T]wo aspects of on problem absorbed his attention in his last years and give a distinctive tone to this book: (1) the fundamental differences between the physical and social sciences and (2) the need to see valuation as an aspect of judgement. His thinking on these two points represents definite advances from positions held in earlier writings. This last book is, therefore, logically the first book in understanding Commons' thought. Here the elements in his viewpoint are presented systemically in relation to the problems or experiences from which he gleaned his hypotheses and insights" -- From the Introduction

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	The Karl H. Niebyl Collection	HB 171 .C77 1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML20060045

Contains index.

"Here [the author] attempts to expound, for the first time, in simple terms, the basic ideas which he developed through sixty years as a participants observer in American economic life... [T]wo aspects of on problem absorbed his attention in his last years and give a distinctive tone to this book: (1) the fundamental differences between the physical and social sciences and (2) the need to see valuation as an aspect of judgement. His thinking on these two points represents definite advances from positions held in earlier writings. This last book is, therefore, logically the first book in understanding Commons' thought. Here the elements in his viewpoint are presented systemically in relation to the problems or experiences from which he gleaned his hypotheses and insights" -- From the Introduction

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