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Institutions, Evolution, Future
Capitalism is the dominant economic framework in modern history, but it s unclear how it really works. Relying on the free movement and spontaneous co...
A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics
Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodo...
An Evolutionary Economics Without Homo Economicus
Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take plac...
This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall ...
The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution
A theoretical study dealing chiefly with matters of definition and clarification of terms and concepts involved in using Darwinian notions to model so...
The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you ne...
Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism
How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist country Modern capitalism emerged in E...
'Almost 150 years after their major works were published Darwin and Marx stand alone as the premier theorists of the evolution of complex living syste...
The Political Economy of Social Democratic Liberalism
The twenty-first century has seen major challenges to freedom and democracy. Authoritarianism is on the rise and democracy is in retreat. Some promote...
Institutions, Ideology and a Scientific Community
Over the last 50 years, the community of heterodox economists has expanded, and its publications have proliferated. But its power in departments of ec...
How the Left Got Lost
The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because ...
Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view...
Towards an Alternative Future
After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialism ideology in the West. But what does socialism mean? This book shows that it is ...
Its Nature and Future
This Element examines the historical emergence of evolutionary economics, its development into a strong research theme after 1980, and how it has host...
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