ABSTRACT
Institutional Economics is a militant sage’s summing up of his lifetime’s thinking. Despite the author’s disavowal of discoveries, it is a highly original book—the product of a stubbornly independent mind, developed by intense strivings with problems of social behavior. Happily that mind has given an account of itself: Myself, by John R. Commons, reveals the author’s personality and sketches his rich experience. Readers will get more profit and more pleasure from the 900-page treatise if they start with the 200-page autobiography. 2
