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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 ... -
The Complex Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: The Functions and Implications of Habit
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2004)This paper explores the evolution of a simple traffic convention concerning the side of the road on which to drive. This agent-based simulation probes some of the deeper conceptual issues involved in the evolution of ... -
Complexity, habits and evolution
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)This article addresses what are often described as ‘complex adaptive systems.’ Typically such systems involve populations of entities that store and replicate information. But these micro aspects are less fully explored ... -
The Concept of a Routine
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2004)The significance of routines in modern, learning, innovating economies is widely appreciated.[1] Routines are vital to all organizations. Hence it is important to understand both how they can be built and how they can be ... -
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, causality and the social sciences
Hodgson, G. (2004)Recently the degree to which ‘evolutionary economics’ does or should involve Darwinian principles has come under debate. This essay builds on previous arguments that Darwinism has a potentially wide application to ... -
Dismantling Lamarckism: why descriptions of socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian are misleading
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2006)This paper addresses the widespread tendency to describe socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian. The difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian replication is clarified. It is shown that a phenotype-genotype distinction ... -
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 ... -
The economics of corruption and the corruption of economics: an institutionalist perspective
Hodgson, G.; Jiang, S. (2007)Corruption is now a popular topic in the social sciences. This expansion of interest is evident in economics and elsewhere, where a large number of articles on this theme have been published in leading journals. Some ... -
The hidden persuaders: institutions and individuals in economic theory
Hodgson, G. (2003)In his classic book The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard claimed that large corporations manipulated consumers, using advertising techniques. John Kenneth Galbraith and others have repeated a similar view. Against this, ... -
Information, complexity and generative replication
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2008)The established definition of replication in terms of the conditions of causality, similarity and information transfer is very broad. We draw inspiration from the literature on self-reproducing automata to strengthen the ... -
Instinct and habit before reason: comparing the views of John Dewey, Friedrich Hayek and Thorstein Veblen
Hodgson, G. (Elsevier, 2006)This article compares the views of Veblen, Dewey and Hayek on the roles and relations between instinct, habit and reason. From a Darwinian perspective, it is shown that Veblen had a more consistent and developed position ... -
Institutionalism versus Marxism : Perspectives for Social Science - A Debate Between Geoffrey Hodgson and Alex Callinicos
Hodgson, G.; Callinicos, A. (University of Hertfordshire, 2005)On 30 April 2001 a public debate was held in the Fielder Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, between Alex Callinicos of the University of York and Geoffrey Hodgson of the University of Hertfordshire, on the theme ... -
Learning From Early Attempts to Generalize Darwinian Principles to Social Evolution
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)Evolutionary psychology places the human psyche in the context of evolution, and addresses the Darwinian processes involved, particularly at the level of genetic evolution. A logically separate and potentially complementary ... -
Learning from early attempts to generalize Darwinian principles to social evolution
Hodgson, G. (2010-06)Evolutionary psychology places the human psyche in the context of evolution, and addresses the Darwinian processes involved, particularly at the level of genetic evolution. A logically separate and potentially complementary ... -
The Legal Nature of the Firm and the Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid
Hodgson, G. (2002-02)Many past economists drew a sharp conceptual distinction between the firm and the market. For example, Smith and Marshall recognised the legal nature and structure of the firm, and saw it as having important economic ... -
Marshall, Schumpeter and the Shifting Boundaries of Economics and Sociology.
Hodgson, G. (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy / Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Porto, 2007)Both Alfred Marshall and Joseph Schumpeter pronounced on the scope and boundaries of economic theory. For Marshall, economics was a broad subject, concerned primarily with business and pecuniary matters. Marshall also ... -
The nature and units of social selection
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2006)On the basis of the technical definition of selection developed by George Price (1995), we describe two forms of selection that commonly occur at the social level, subset selection and generative selection. Both forms of ... -
On the institutional foundations of law : The insufficiency of custom and private ordering
Hodgson, G. (2009-01-01)Some theorists propose that systems of law largely arise spontaneously, as an extension of customary rules. At most, the role of the state is to endorse customary laws and add some minimal general rules. Some see no essential ... -
On the Limits of Rational Choice Theory
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2003)The value of rational choice theory for the social sciences has been long debated. Such rational choice theory involves a theory of behaviour based on the assumption that individuals are acting, or acting as if, to maximise ...