Frases de John Rogers Commons

John Rogers Commons foi um economista institucional, progressiva e historiador trabalhista na Universidade do Wisconsin-Madison.O foco de pesquisa de Commons era as questões trabalhistas. Seu trabalho sobre ação coletiva e sobre a interação entre direito e economia também contribuiu para o escopo da economia institucional. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Outubro 1862 – 11. Maio 1945
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John Rogers Commons: Frases em inglês

“Liberty is absence of restraint. Freedom is participation in government.”

Fonte: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 111

“Legally, the term liberty means absence of duty, or rather the limit of duty.”

Fonte: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 53

“These individual actions are really trans-actions instead of either individual behavior or the "exchange" of commodities. It is this shift from commodities and individuals to transactions and working rules of collective action that marks the transition from the classical and hedonic schools to the institutional schools of economic thinking. The shift is a change in the ultimate unit of economic investigation. The classic and hedonic economists, with their communistic and anarchistic offshoots, founded their theories on the relation of man to nature, but institutionalism is a relation of man to man. The smallest unit of the classic economists was a commodity produced by labor. The smallest unit of the hedonic economists was the same or similar commodity enjoyed by ultimate consumers. One was the objective side, the other the subjective side, of the same relation between the individual and the forces of nature. The outcome, in either case, was the materialistic metaphor of an automatic equilibrium, analogous to the waves of the ocean, but personified as "seeking their level." But the smallest unit of the institutional economists is a unit of activity -- a transaction, with its participants. Transactions intervene between the labor of the classic economists and the pleasures of the hedonic economists, simply because it is society that controls access to the forces of nature, and transactions are, not the "exchange of commodities," but the alienation and acquisition, between individuals, of the rights of property and liberty created by society, which must therefore be negotiated between the parties concerned before labor can produce, or consumers can consume, or commodities be physically exchanged.”

"Institutional Economics," 1931