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1. Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen

   Edited by Charles Camic, Geoffrey M Hodgson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen’s major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914). These writings...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Evolution of Institutional Economics

   By Geoffrey M Hodgson

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new...

   Published March 3rd 2004 by Routledge
3. How Economics Forgot History

   The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

   By Geoffrey M Hodgson

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. He argues that you need different theories to analyze different economic phenomena...

   Published August 22nd 2001 by Routledge
4. Economics and Utopia

   Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History

   By Geoffrey M Hodgson

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of...

   Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge