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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? A COMMENT ON THE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITISM OF JOHN R. COMMONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2018

J. Dennis Chasse
J. Dennis Chasse*
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SUNY at Brockport.
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Abstract

In a recent article Luca Fiorito and Cosma Orsi accused John R. Commons of anti-Semitism “within a broad and xenophobic framework.” They rested their indictment on three sources: an interview in which Mark Perlman spoke of his father, Selig; Commons’s report on immigration for the United States Industrial Commission; and Commons’s book Races and Immigrants. This comment, looking at the same sources, finds confusion about the meanings of anti-Semitism and xenophobia as they are applied to Commons.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 419 - 432
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2018 

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I would like to thank two referees and the editor, Stephen Meardon, for helpful comments on a previous draft.

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