Contemporary Meanings of John R. Commons’s Institutional Economics

Hiroyuki Uni, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

• 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: Indus-trial Stages and Economic Stages (Takao Tsukamoto).- 7. The Theoretical Connection between John R. Commons and Regula-tion and Convention Theories (Hiroyuki Uni and Takayuki Nakahara).- Appendix: Excerpts from the 1927 Manuscript: Reasonable Value, A Theo-ry of Volitional Economics.