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John R. Commons  

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  • John R. Commons was a prominent historian and interpreter of the American labor movement, as well as an activist in several social reform movements. He was a major architect of regulatory agencies, a historian and theoretician of the evolution of the economic system, and a leading theorist of the role of institutions in the economy, especially its legal foundations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Commons, John R. (1862–1945)]

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