Geoffrey M. Hodgson (born 28 July 1946) is a Research Professor of Business Studies in the University of Hertfordshire, and also the head of the Centre for Research in Institutional Economics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics.

Prof. Hodgson is recognized as one of the leading figures of new 'old' institutionalism. His broad research interests span from evolutionary economics and history of economic thought to Marxism and theoretical biology. He is best known for his book Economics and Institutions: A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics (1988), in which modern 'mainstream' economics is criticized, and the call is made to revise economic theory on the new grounds of institutionalism.

Books

• "The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism" (Routledge, London, 2004). ISBN 0415322537

• "How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science" (Routledge, London, 2001). ISBN 0415257174

• "Economics and Institutions: A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics" (Polity Press, Cambridge, and University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1988). ISBN 0745602770

• "Economics and Evolution: Bringning Life Back Into Economics" (University Of Michigan Press, 1993). ISBN 0472105221

• "Evolution and Institutions" (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, 1999) ISBN 1 85898 813 6

• "Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History" (Routledge, London, 1999) ISBN 0-415-19685-X

• "A Modern Reader in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2002) ISBN 1 84064 474 5

External links

• Geoffrey Hodgson's homepage
• Centre for Research in Institutional Economics
• Journal of Institutional Economics