“Liberty is absence of restraint. Freedom is participation in government.”
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 111
John Rogers Commons né le 13 octobre 1862 à Hollandsburg et mort le 11 mai 1945 à Fort Lauderdale, est un économiste américain, considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de l'Institutionnalisme.
Il a notamment étudié l'évolution légale de la propriété privée et le domaine des commons , et milité pour un capitalisme raisonnable.
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“Liberty is absence of restraint. Freedom is participation in government.”
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 111
Source: "Institutional Economics," 1931, p. 648
“Legally, the term liberty means absence of duty, or rather the limit of duty.”
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 53
pg. 41.
Races and Immigrants in America, 1907
Source: "Institutional economics," 1936, p. 243
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 221
Source: "Institutional Economics," 1931, p. 648
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. vii
pgs. 115-16.
Races and Immigrants in America, 1907
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 95
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 376
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 320
"Institutional Economics," 1931
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 1; Lead paragraph first chapter on Mechanism, Scarcity, Working Rules
John R. Commons, "American shoemakers, 1648-1895: A sketch of industrial evolution." The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1909): 39-84.
pg. 131.
Races and Immigrants in America, 1907
“Liberty, as such, is only the negative of duty, the absence of restraint or compulsion.”
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 118
Source: "Institutional Economics," 1931, p. 654
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 351-352
pg. 136.
Races and Immigrants in America, 1907
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 25
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 99
Source: "Institutional Economics," 1931, p. 652
Source: "Institutional economics," 1936, p. 242