New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ECONOMIST

John R. Commons

1862 - 1945

Photo of John R. Commons

Icon of person John R. Commons

John Rogers Commons (October 13, 1862 – May 11, 1945) was an American institutional economist, Georgist, progressive and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John R. Commons has received more than 180,547 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John R. Commons is the 240th most popular economist, the 4,435th most popular biography from United States and the 80th most popular American Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John R. Commons by language


Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John R. Commons ranks 240 out of 315Before him are Eric Maskin, Hernando de Soto Polar, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Eugen Varga, Jules Dupuit, and Greg Mankiw. After him are Leopold von Wiese, Ragnar Nurkse, William Phillips, Edward Chamberlin, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Theodore Levitt.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, John R. Commons ranks 92Before him are João do Canto e Castro, Arvid Lindman, Charles Evans Hughes, Carl Charlier, Eugen Schmidt, and Maironis. After him are Émile Mâle, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Mykola Pymonenko, Edward Granville Browne, Agnes Pockels, and Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda. Among people deceased in 1945, John R. Commons ranks 218Before him are Jüri Uluots, Demyan Bedny, Karl Decker, Carl Gustaf Ekman, Ángel Melogno, and Aris Velouchiotis. After him are Alexander Khatisian, Lucien Simon, Harry Hillman, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Henri Dentz, and Henrietta Szold.

Others Born in 1862

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1945

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, John R. Commons ranks 4,435 out of 18,182Before him are Chris Hardwick (1971), Ron Rivest (1947), Victor Wong (1927), Michael Cristofer (1945), Mehmet Oz (1960), and Meriwether Lewis (1774). After him are Robert Mueller (1944), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Alexis Bledel (1981), David Robinson (1965), Rocky Graziano (1919), and Terry Funk (1944).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, John R. Commons ranks 80Before him are David D. Friedman (1945), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), George Shultz (1920), Eric Maskin (1950), and Greg Mankiw (1958). After him are Edward Chamberlin (1899), Leo Huberman (1903), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Paul Sweezy (1910), and Arthur Laffer (1940).