Rummaging the attic of past ideas

Geoffrey M. Hodgson ()

Chapter 6 in From Marx to Markets, 2025, pp 107-137 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 6 begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and covers Geoffrey Hodgson's academic career up to 2004, including his six years at the University of Cambridge from 1992 and his move to a research chair at the University of Hertfordshire in January 1999, which gave him much more time for research. His successful 1988 book was followed by Economics and Evolution in 1993, where he began exploring evolutionary ideas. Economics and Utopia was published in 1999. At Cambridge, he had engaged with its group of critical realists, led by Tony Lawson. After leaving that university, he had time to write up some critical reflections on that philosophy. In 2004, he completed his major two-volume history of the historical school and of the original institutional economics. The first volume focusses on the problem of historical specificity and the second on agency and structure.

Keywords: End of the Cold War; University of Cambridge; Evolutionary economics; Institutional economics; Critical realism; Tony Lawson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350094
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