Of the American institutionalists, his most generous comments concerned Commons's work, work that he regarded as hopelessly unsystematic but highly ‘suggestive and valuable' (Frank Knight)

Of the American institutionalists, his most generous comments concerned Commons's work, work that he regarded as hopelessly unsystematic but highly ‘suggestive and valuable'

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