Geoffrey Hodgson

Geoffrey M. Hodgson ( born July 28, 1946) is a professor of economics at the University of Hertfordshire. Hodgson is a representative of modern evolutionary institutionalism. This flow refers to the institutional economics tradition, and in particular Thorstein Veblen, and follows an evolutionary approach. His interests are mainly evolutionary economics, economic history of ideas, Marxism and theoretical biology. He became known through books such as Economics and Institutions: A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics ( 1988) or Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics ( 1993). In a recent trilogy Economics and Utopia (1999), How Economics Forgot History ( 2001) and The Evolution of Institutional Economics (2004 ), he criticized the popular arguments of the economic mainstream.