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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
89
Citations
41487
World Ranking
177
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Geoffrey M. Hodgson is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with a total of 28 publications in each of these main fields. Hodgson's work covers diverse subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, law, general economics, econometrics and finance, and history and philosophy of science.

The core focus of Hodgson's research centers on topics such as economic theory and institutions, economic theory and policy, political economy and Marxism, law, economics and judicial systems, culture, economy and development studies, historical economic and social studies, and legal principles and applications.

Frequent publication venues for Hodgson include:

  • Journal of Institutional Economics (10 publications)
  • Journal of Economic Issues (4 publications)
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2 publications)
  • European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1 publication)
  • Contributions to Political Economy (1 publication)

Recent papers authored by Hodgson demonstrate the breadth of their academic interests:

  • "Veblen: the making of an economist who unmade economics" (2021, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought)
  • "Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction" (2025, Journal of Institutional Economics)
  • "The New Economics: A Manifesto" (2023, Contributions to Political Economy)
  • "Debating the Future of Heterodox Economics" (2021, Journal of Economic Issues)
  • "On the limits of markets" (2020, Journal of Institutional Economics)

Hodgson's coauthorship network includes collaborations with David Gindis, Simon Deakin, Paolo Silvestri, Yu. G. Lavrikova, and Olga Buchinskaia. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary engagement within economics, law, and social sciences.

Their book publications include works predominantly published by Princeton University Press and Edward Elgar Publishing. Notably, three editions of "The Wealth of a Nation" were released in 2023 under Princeton University Press, and "Liberal Solidarity" was published in 2021 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Economics and institutions

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

  • The evolution of institutional economics

    Geoffrey M Hodgson

  • What Are Institutions

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • The Approach of Institutional Economics

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • Economics and institutions: A manifesto for a modern institutional economics

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

  • Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

  • Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics.

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  • Darwinism in economics: from analogy to ontology

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • Evolution and Institutions

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson;Thorbjørn Knudsen

  • Meanings of methodological individualism

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

  • The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure and Darwinism in American institutionalism

    Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

  • The hidden persuaders: institutions and individuals in economic theory

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • Economics and Evolution

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • The ubiquity of habits and rules

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • The firm as an interactor: firms as vehicles for habits and routines

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson;Thorbjørn Knudsen

  • Competence and contract in the theory of the firm

    Geoffrey M Hodgson

  • Institutions and Individuals: Interaction and Evolution

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

  • In defence of generalized Darwinism

    Howard E. Aldrich;Geoffrey M. Hodgson;David L. Hull;Thorbjørn Knudsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Baker
Stephen Baker Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Michael A. Quail
Michael A. Quail Wellcome Sanger Institute
Carol Churcher
Carol Churcher University of Cambridge
Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt European Bioinformatics Institute
Karen Mungall
Karen Mungall BC Cancer Agency
David W. Ussery
David W. Ussery University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Claude Gaillardin
Claude Gaillardin Agro ParisTech
Bart Barrell
Bart Barrell Wellcome Sanger Institute
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society

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