"Races and Immigrants in America" by John R. Commons is a seminal work that explores the complex dynamics of race and immigration in the United States. Commons delves into the historical context of various immigrant groups, examining their contributions to American society and the challenges they faced. He provides a critical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influenced immigration policies and public perceptions of different races, highlighting the interplay between labor, ethni...

John R. Commons' 'Races & Immigrants in USA' is a groundbreaking work that delves into the complex issue of race and immigration in the United States. Written in a meticulous and scholarly style, Commons explores the historical context of immigration and its impact on the social and economic landscape of the country. Drawing on sociological and historical research, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the experiences of different racial and ethnic groups in America. Commons' literar...

In "Races and Immigrants in America," John R. Commons offers a profound examination of the socio-economic dynamics that shape the experiences of diverse racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Drawing from a wealth of historical data, Commons employs a rigorous analytical lens, effectively intertwining statistical analysis with narrative storytelling. His project is situated within the early 20th-century intellectual landscape that grappled with issues of labor, race, and immigratio...

Races and Immigrants in America is a Progressive Era study of immigration, labor, and ethnic formation in the United States. Commons examines European migration, industrial employment, urban settlement, and the changing composition of the American working class in a prose style that is empirical, reformist, and argumentative. Written within the early twentieth-century discourse of social science, the book combines statistics, historical narrative, and policy analysis, while also bearing th...

The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual's evolution from childhood adolescence. The specific ways in which different societies cope with the transition from childhood to adolescence are important because a sense of responsibility, consonant with the goals of the society and survival of family and culture, is i...

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: ""My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective action in control of individual action."" This sentence well summarizes the three key elements of this book--its theoretical intent, the importance Commons gave to his own experience in institutional reform in shaping these ideas, and the focus on the concept of the institution as a collective const...

In what has universally been recognized as a classic of institutional economics, John R. Commons combined the skills of a professional economist, the sensibilities of an American historian, and the passion of an active participant in the conflicts of individuals, self-interest of groups, and function of voluntary associations.The aim of this volume is to work out an evolutionary and behavioral theory of value. In order to do so thoroughly, Commons examines the decisions of the courts. Doin...

View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general introduction to the structure and function of the legal system of the United States, and is ...

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples to form an acute definition of kinsh...

Written by a leading expert in the field, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts provides students with ready access to the basic doctrines of contract law, the story behind their evolution, and the rationales for their continued existence. An engaging book that allows students to grasp the "big picture" of contract law, it is organized around the principle that lies at the heart of contracts: consent. Beginning with the premise of "consent," the book provides a cohesive ...

Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of Business Enterprise is one of the seminal works of economics.Written during the advent of the United States of America’s economic boom, it analyses the effect of corporate culture on society and the economy.Looking at the situation that he saw around him Veblen stated that there was conflict between the old way of economics, led by the large businessmen, and the new system of industry, led by engineers.Business owners, Veblen claimed...