Contemporary Meanings of John R. Commons’s Institutional Economics

Part I. Volitional Theory of Value with Multiple Causations

1. Scope of John R. Commons’s Criticism of the Classical Theory of Value: Progress and Limitations in the 1927 Manuscript
Hiroyuki Uni

2. From Carl Menger to John R. Commons: Human Volition and Value Theory in Institutional Economics
Natsuka Tokumaru

Part II. Theories for Social Reform

3. The Effect of the Great Depression on the Institutional Economics of John R. Commons
Shingo Takahashi

4. Two Methods of Institutional Reform in the Institutional Economics of John R. Commons
Kota Kitagawa

5. John R. Commons and Gunnar Myrdal on Institutional Economics: Their Methods of Social Reform
Nanako Fujita

Part III. Accomplished Dynamic Models

6. John R. Commons’s Two Evolutionary Models of Capitalism: Industrial Stages and Economic Stages
Takao Tsukamoto

7. The Theoretical Connection Between John R. Commons and Regulation and Convention Theories
Hiroyuki Uni, Takayuki Nakahara

Avainsanat: Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Economic History, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods