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The Great Crash of 2008 and the reform of economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey (2009)The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself—from a subject dominated by mathematical ... -
Hayekian evolution reconsidered : A response to Caldwell
Hodgson, G.M. (2004-03-01)Caldwell (2001. Hodgson on Hayek: a critique, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 25, 541-55) raises a number of criticisms of Hodgson's (1993. Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, Cambridge, UK and ... -
An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics
Hodgson, G.M. (2008)Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to the area. Even mainstream health ... -
Institutions and economic change : A critical survey of the new institutional approaches and empirical evidence
Gagliardi, F. (2008)The purpose of this paper is to review the main literature that has analyzed the channels through which institutions influence economic change, hence development. The interest for this topic arises from the relatively ... -
An Interview with Oliver Williamson
Gindis, David; Hodgson, Geoffrey (2007) -
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions
Blyth, Mark; Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Lewis, Orion; Steinmo, Sven (2011-09)How can evolutionary ideas be applied to the study of social and political institutions? Charles Darwin identified the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention. He emphasized that evolutionary change depends on the ... -
Legal Institutionalism : Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law
Deakin, Simon; Gindis, David; Hodgson, G.M.; Huang, Kainan; Pistor, Katharina (2017-02-01)Social scientists have paid insufficient attention to the role of law in constituting the economic institutions of capitalism. Part of this neglect emanates for inadequate conceptions of the nature of law itself. Spontaneous ... -
Legal Personhood and the Firm: Avoiding Anthropomorphism and Equivocation
Gindis, David (2016-09-01)From the legal point of view, ‘person’ is not co-extensive with ‘human being’. Nor is it synonymous with ‘rational being’ or ‘responsible subject’. Much of the confusion surrounding the issue of the firm's legal personality ... -
The mirage of microfoundations
Hodgson, Geoffrey (2012)If the project to bring “microfoundations” into strategic management and organizational analysis (Abel, Felin and Foss 2008, Felin and Foss 2005, 2006, 2009) simply means that we “we stress the need to build microfoundations ... -
Observations on the legal theory of finance
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2013-05-01)This is a comment on 'Towards a legal theory of finance' by Katharina Pistor. It notes that both law and money are complex and controversial phenomena. They have to be treated as historically specific institutions that ... -
On fuzzy frontiers and fragmented foundations : some reflections on the original and new institutional economics
Hodgson, G.M. (2014-12-31)These reflections are prompted by the papers by Ménard (2014) and Ménard and Shirley (2014). Their essays centre on the path-breaking contributions to the 'new institutional economics' (NIE) by Ronald Coase, Douglass North ... -
Overcoming the Impasse in Modern Economics
Gagliardi, Francesca; Gindis, David (2011) -
Please may we join the Veblen Club? : A response to John Hall
Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Knudsen, Thorbjorn (2012-03) -
Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause : some questions for Felin and Foss
Hodgson, Geoffrey; Knudsen, T. (2011)We examine an aspect of the argument of Teppo Felin and Nicolai Foss ('The Endogenous Origins of Experience, Routines, and Organizational Capabilities: The Poverty of Stimulus'; 2011) where they reject the claim of Geoffrey ... -
Sickonomics : Diagnoses and remedies
Hodgson, G.M. (2011-09-01)In their recent analysis of the alleged decay in modern economics, Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis claim to find its source and origin in the "marginal revolution" of the 1870s. They argue that this development led to ... -
Some Building Blocks for a Theory of the Firm as a Real Entity
Gindis, David (Routledge, 2007) -
Specificity of the Network-Firm and the Boundaries of the Firm
Gindis, David; Baudry, Bernard (ATINER, 2004) -
Toward an evolutionary and moral science remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2012-06)Thorstein Veblen asked in 1898 why economics is not an evolutionary science; he also proposed a Darwinian paradigm shift for economics. Among the implications reviewed here was his claim that Darwinian principles applied ... -
Underqualified-maximal generality in Darwinian explanation : a response to Matt Gers
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2012)Gers (Biol Philos, 2011) provides a positive and constructive view of the project to generalise Darwinian principles in Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen's Darwin's Conjecture. We note considerable overlap with his ... -
Understanding Organizational Evolution : Toward a Research Agenda using Generalized Darwinism
Hodgson, Geoffrey (2013-07)The terms ‘evolution’ and ‘coevolution’ are widely used in organization studies but rarely defined. Often it is unclear whether they refer to single entities or populations. When specific evolutionary processes are suggested, ...