John Bertram Andrews
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John Bertram Andrews was an American
United States
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 economist
Economist
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, born in South Wayne, Wisconsin
South Wayne, Wisconsin
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, and educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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 and at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
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. He taught economics at both of those institutions. In 1911, he founded the American Labor Legislation Review with the purpose of recording advances in social reforms. Together with John R. Commons
John R. Commons
John Rogers Commons was an American institutional economist and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Biography:Born in Hollansburg, Ohio, John R. Commons had a religious upbringing which led him to be an advocate for social justice early in life...

, he was the author of Principles of Labor Legislation (1916) and History of Labor in the United States (1918).

In 1921 he was called by President Harding to serve on the Unemployment Conference. He was a member of the secretariat to the League of Nations
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' first official International Labor Conference in Washington, D.C.
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