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Commons was born on 13 October 1862 in Hollandsburg, Ohio, and died on 11 May 1945 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He studied at Oberlin College (BA, 1888) and Johns Hopkins University (1888–90). He taught at Wesleyan, Oberlin, Indiana, Syracuse, and Wisconsin (1904–32).
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman.
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Samuels, W.J. (1987). Commons, John Rogers (1862–1945). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_656-1
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