From Marx to Markets

An Intellectual Odyssey

Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-5009-4 (ISBN)

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In this revealing and eminently readable book, Geoffrey M. Hodgson takes readers on an intellectual odyssey through his distinguished career and his work as one of the leading institutional and evolutionary economists. Depicting his life throughout the Cold War, grappling with the military and economic rivalry of two different systems and the threat of nuclear war, to becoming an economist in the 1970s, and his ventures into institutional and evolutionary economics.

Examining the evolution of Hodgson’s thinking and citing the events and experiences that helped to transform his vision, chapters cover the impact of the Cold War and subsequent events on Hodgson's thinking. He summarizes his main written contributions, with suggestions for the reform of economics and the development of its theoretical foundations. The book also calls for the development of better theories and policies in economics, helping to yield more effective outcomes to enhance human wellbeing and build a better and fairer world.

Showcasing some of the problems and potentialities of the discipline, From Marx to Markets is a useful resource for students considering, or having embarked on, the study of economics. It is also an essential read for academics in the social sciences and law.

Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Emeritus Professor, Loughborough University London, UK

Contents
Preface vi
PART I Histories
1 Science and the Cold War 3
2 Revolution and youth 23
3 Crises in theory and in reality 41
4 A road less travelled 65
5 Britain under the Iron Lady 89
6 Rummaging the attic of past ideas 113
PART II Themes
7 The nature and importance of definitions 147
8 The future of evolutionary economics 177
9 The development of institutional analysis 205
10 After the Great Crash: socialism versus liberal solidarity 239
11 Building an economics for a better world 275
Appendix 1 A Plea for a Pluralistic and Rigorous Economics (1990) 00
Appendix 2 Letter to the Queen (2009) 299
Appendix 3 Most highly cited works on Google Scholar 302
List of works (partly or wholly) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson 305

Erscheinungsdatum	13.03.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-0353-5009-2 / 1035350092
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-5009-4 / 9781035350094
Zustand	Neuware