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Agency, institutions, and Darwinism in evolutionary economic geography
Hodgson, G. (2009)The article by Danny MacKinnon, Andrew Cumbers, Andy Pike, Kean Birch, and Robert McMaster continues the dialogue on evolutionary ideas within economic geography. In response, I argue that the word “evolution” has a variety ... -
Agreeing on generalised Darwinism : A response to Pavel Pelikan
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2012)Pelikan (J Evol Econ 21:341-366, 2011) develops an interesting conceptual framework that adds to prior work on generalised Darwinism. Despite claims to the contrary we show that it is similar to the approach developed by ... -
Bank Competition, Lending Relationships and Firm Default Risk : An Investigation of Italian SMEs
Agostino, Maria Rosaria; Gagliardi, Francesca; Trivieri, Francesco (2012-12)Building on the literature relating to bank market structure and on the research analysing costs and benefits of concentrated credit relationships, this article aims to empirically assess whether, and to what extent, local ... -
Banking market structure, creation and activity of firms : Early evidence for co-operatives in the Italian case
Gagliardi, F. (2009)This paper investigates whether local differences in banking competition impact on the creation and activity of firms, with a special focus on cooperatives. The empirical analysis, implemented on a sample of Italian firms, ... -
Brakes on Chinese Development : Institutional Causes of a Growth Slowdown
Hodgson, Geoffrey; Huang, Kainan (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)China has enjoyed spectacular economic growth since the 1980s. Economic models based on production functions typically suggest that China‟s rapid growth will continue at similarly high rates, but they ignore pressing ... -
Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? : Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism
Hodgson, G.M. (2013-12-01)Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall ... -
Credit market structure and bank screening : an indirect test on Italian data
Agostino, M.; Gagliardi, F.; Trivieri, F. (2010)Based on a large panel of Italian SMEs, this paper focuses on the relationship between firms' default probability and the amount of bank debt they obtain, evaluating whether and to what extent this link is affected by the ... -
Darwinian coevolution of organizations and the environment
Hodgson, G. (2010)Darwinism offers a highly abstract and general meta-theoretical framework to help understand both natural and social evolution. This framework is of significance for ecological economics because it addresses the evolution ... -
Darwinism and Organizational Ecology: A Reply to Reydon and Scholz
Dollimore, Denise E. (2014-06-03)In an earlier article published in this journal I challenge Reydon and Scholz's (2009) claim that Organizational Ecology is a non-Darwinian program. In this replay to Reydon and Scholz's subsequent response, I clarify the ... -
The eclipse of the uncertainty concept in mainstream economics
Hodgson, G. (2011)This paper examines the decline in use of the Knight-Keynes uncertainty concept in mainstream economics. Using electronic archives, it shows that the frequency of its appearance in leading journals of economics has fallen ... -
Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
Gowdy, John, M.; Dollimore, Denise E.; Sloan Wilson, David; Witt, Ulrich (2013-06)The intellectual histories of economics and evolutionary biology are closely intertwined because both subjects deal with living, complex, evolving systems. Because the subject matter is similar, contemporary evolutionary ... -
The emergence of property rights enforcement in early trade : A behavioral model without reputational effects
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2008)The present article focuses on the conditions that allow governments to increase property rights protection because they expect enough income from such action. We develop a behavioral explanation, according to which the ... -
The evolution of morality and the end of economic man
Hodgson, G.M. (2014-01-01)1871 saw the publication of two major treatises in economics, with self-seeking economic man at their center. In the same year Darwin published The Descent of Man, which emphasized sympathy and cooperation as well as ... -
Evolutionary economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey (Unesco, 2011) -
Evolutionary game theory and evolutionary economics : are they different species?
Hodgson, G.M.; Huang, K. (2012)Evolutionary game theory and evolutionary economics seem to inhabit different academic spheres and have little collaboration with one another. Neither side cites much research by the other. Does this de facto academic ... -
Financial development and the growth of cooperative firms
Gagliardi, F. (2009)The purpose of this article is to empirically assess the relationship existing between local financial development and the growth of firms, with a special focus on cooperatives. Using Italian data, a multiplicative interaction ... -
Four Essays on Economic Evolution : an introduction
Dollimore, Denise E.; Hodgson, Geoffrey (2014-01)This essay is in two parts. The first considers the evolution of evolutionary economics from 1982 to 2012. While enormous advances are acknowledged, it is argued that the field is in danger of fragmentation and that there ... -
From Fictions and Aggregates to Real Entities in the Theory of the Firm
Gindis, David (2009-04-01)According to the dominant ‘nexus of contracts’ and ‘collection of assets’ views of the firm, the firm is a either a fiction or an aggregate. Although legal personality is important in both accounts, everything is said to ... -
Generalizing Darwinism to social evolution : Some early attempts
Hodgson, G.M. (2005-12-01)The article focuses on the early attempts of generalizing Darwinism to social evolution. In early literature, definitions of the core concepts of a generalized Darwinism are absent. Earlier writings failed to identify the ... -
Generative replication and the evolution of complexity
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2010)This paper identifies generative replication as a form of replication which has the potential to enhance complexity in social and biological evolution, including the wondrous complexity in the biological world, and complex ...