GROUP FOR RESEARCH IN ORGANISATIONAL EVOLUTION
Head of the unit
Professor Geoffrey M Hodgson
Key Unit Members
Dr Denise Dollimore
Dr Francesca Gagliardi
Mr David Gindis
Dr Tassos Patokos
Indicative publications (from January 2008)
Books
Francesca Gagliardi (forthcoming) Varieties of Capitalism and Firm Performance: The Institutional Context of Economic Organisation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
Geoffrey M. Hodgson(2012) From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: Toward an Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) forthcoming.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (ed.) (2012)Mathematics and ModernEconomics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), forthcoming.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andCharles Camic (eds) (2011) Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen (London: Roultledge).
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2010) Darwin’s Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution (Chicago: Chicago University Press).
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (ed.) (2009)Darwinism and Economics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
Pavel Luksha (2009) Self-reproduction in Evolutionary Economics (Samovosproizvodstvo v evolutsionnoj ekonomike) (St. Petersburg: Alteia Press) (in Russian).
Tassos Patokos (2012)Internal Game Theory (London and New York: Routledge), forthcoming.
Tassos Patokos and V. Missos (2008) Labour in Contemporary Economics (Athens: INE Publications (Labour Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers) (in Greek).
Journal Articles
Mariarosaria Agostino, Francesca Gagliardi, and Francesco Trivieri (forthcoming) ‘Bank Competition, Lending Relationships and Firm Default Rsk. An Investigation on Italian SMEs”, International Small Business Journal, doi: 10.1177/0266242611416681.
Mariarosaria Agostino, Francesca Gagliardi, and Francesco Trivieri (2010) ‘Credit Market Structure and Bank Screening. An Indirect Test on Italian Data’, Review of Financial Economics, 19(4), October 2010, pp.151-160.
Howard E. Aldrich, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, David L. Hull, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Joel Mokyr and Viktor J. Vanberg (2008) ‘In Defence of Generalized Darwinism’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 18(5), October 2008, pp. 577-96.
Mark Blyth, Geoffrey M. Hodgson Orion Lewis, and Sven Steinmo (2011), ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions’, Journal of Institutional Economics¸ 7(3), September, pp. 299-315.
Germana Bottone and V. Sena (forthcoming) 'Human Capital: Theoretical and Empirical Insights',American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
John Considine and Robert Butler (2010) 'Dr Olson's Antidote for the Disease of Institutional Sclerosis', Economic Affairs, 30(1):55-60.
Francesca Gagliardi (2008) ‘Institutions and Economic Change: A Critical Survey of the New Institutional Approaches and Empirical Evidence’, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(1), February 2008, pp.416-443.
Francesca Gagliardi (2009) ‘Financial Development and the Growth of Cooperative Firms’, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, 32(4), April 2009, pp.439-464.
Francesca Gagliardi (2009) ‘Banking Market Structure, Creation and Activity of Firms: Early Evidence for Cooperatives in the Italian Case’, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 80(4), December 2009, pp.575-610.
Francesca Gagliardi and David Gindis (2011) ‘Overcoming the Impasse in Modern Economics’, Competition and Change, 15(4), December, pp. 336-342.
David Gindis (2009) 'From Fictions and Aggregates to Real Entities in the Theory of the Firm', Journal of Institutional Economics, 5(1), April, pp. 25-46.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘An Institutional and Evolutionary Perspective on Health Economics’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32(2), March, pp. 235-56.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘Prospects for Economic Sociology’ (review article), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 38(1), March, pp. 133-49.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘How Veblen Generalized Darwinism’, Journal of Economic Issues, 42(2), June, pp. 399-405.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘Towards an Alternative Economics of Health Care’, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 4(1), January, pp. 99-114.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘Institutional Economics into the Twenty-First Century’, Studi e Note di Economia, 24(1),pp. 3-26.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘On the Institutional Foundations of Law: The Insufficiency of Custom and Private Ordering’, Journal of Economic Issues, 43(1), March, pp. 143-66.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘Agency, Institutions, and Darwinism in Evolutionary Economic Geography’, Economic Geography, 85(2), April, pp. 167-73.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘The Great Crash of 2008 and the Reform of Economics’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(6), November , pp. 1205-21.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2010)‘Learning From Early Attempts to Generalize Darwinian Principles to Social Evolution’, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 8(2), June, pp. 153-67.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2010)‘Darwinian Coevolution of Organizations and the Environment’, Ecological Economics, 69(4), February, pp. 700-6.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2010)‘Choice, Habit and Evolution’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 20(1), January, pp. 1-18.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011)‘The Eclipse of the Uncertainty Concept in Mainstream Economics’, Journal of Economic Issues, 45(1), March, pp. 159-79.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011)'Reforming Economics after the Financial Crisis’, Global Policy, 2(2), May, pp. 190-5.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011) ‘Sickonomics: Diagnoses and Remedies’, Review of Social Economy, September 2011, 69(3), pp. 357-76.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2012) ‘Toward an Evolutionary and Moral Science: Remarks on Receiving the Veblen-Commons Award’, Journal of Economic Issues, June, 44(2), pp. 265-75.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (forthcoming)‘On the Limits of Rational Choice Theory’, Economic Thought
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (forthcoming)‘The Mirage of Microfoundations’, Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming).
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andKainan Huang (2012) ‘Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Game Theory: Are They a Different Species?’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 22(2), pp. 345-366.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2008) ‘The Emergence of Property Rights Enforcement in Early Trade: A Behavioral Model Without Reputational Effects’ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(1), pp. 48-62.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2008) ‘Information, Complexity and Generative Replication’, Biology and Philosophy, 43(1),pp. 47-65.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2008) ‘In Search of General Evolutionary Principles: Why Darwinism is Too Important to be Left to the Biologists’ Journal of Bioeconomics,10(1), April, pp. 51-69.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2010) ‘Generative Replication and the Evolution of Complexity’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 75(1), July, pp. 12-24.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2011) 'Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause: some questions for Felin and Foss’, Journal of Institutional Economics¸ 7(2), June, pp. 295-8.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2012)‘Agreeing on Generalised Darwinism: A Response to Pavel Pelikan’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 22(1), pp. 9-18.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2012) ‘Underqualified - Maximal Generality in Darwinian Explanation: A Response to Matt Gers’, Biology and Philosophy,27(4), pp. 607-14.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson andThorbjørn Knudsen (2012) ‘Generalized Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics: From Ontology to Theory’, Biological Theory, published online. DOI 10.1007/s13752-012-0043-5.
Alexander Lascaux (2008) ‘Trust and Uncertainty: A Critical Re-assessment’, International Review of Sociology,18(1), March, pp. 1-18.
Alexander Lascaux (2012) ‘Money, Trust and Hierarchies: Understanding the Foundations for Placing Confidence in Complex Economic Institutions’, Journal of Economic Issues, 46(1), March, pp. 75-99.
Pavel Luksha (2008) ‘Niche Construction: The Process of Opportunity Creation in the Environment’, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2(4), pp. 269-283.
Tassos Patokos (2008) “Disappointment as an Evolutionary Force”, The Indian Economic Journal, 56(1), 87-102.
Tassos Patokos (2008) “A New Era for the Music Industry: How New Technologies and the Internet Affect the Way Music is Valued and Have an Impact on Output Quality”, Panoeconomicus, 10: 233-48.
Tassos Patokos (2010), “Lives in the Hands of Economists: A critical review of the main methodologies used to derive the value of a statistical life”, Environmental Economics, 1(2): 8-17.
Tassos Patokos (2010) “The Recording Industry as an Heterogeneous Population and the New Behaviors Emerging in the Digital Era”, Innovative Marketing, 4(6): 81-8.
Tassos Patokos (2011), “The relevance of Nash equilibrium to psychiatric disorders”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 32: 245-58.
Chapters in Books
Robbie Butler & Meadhbh Sherman (2009) 'Government Support for Horse Racing Ireland: The Allocation & Distribution of Public Funds', in Edward Shinnick (eds). New Developments in Economic Research (Berlin, Germany: LIT).
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘The Emergence of the Idea of Institutions as Repositories of Knowledge’, in Ebner, Alexander and Beck, Nikolaus (eds) (2008) The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 23-39.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘Marshall, Schumpeter and the Shifting Boundaries of Economics and Sociology’, in Yuichi Shionoya and Tamotsu Nishizawa (eds) (2008) Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic Sociology of Capitalist Development (Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar), pp. 93-115.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2008)‘Fifteen Years of Economic Transition’, in Schönbäck, Wilfred, Blaas, Wolfgang and Bröthhaler, Johann (eds) (2008) Sozioökonomie als multidisziplinärer Forschungsansatz: Eine Gedenkschrift für Egon Matzner (New York and Vienna: Springer), pp. 89-95.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009) ‘Que’est-ce-qu’ne firme?’, in Bernard Baudry and Benjamin Dubrion (eds) (2009) Analyses et transformations de la firme (Paris: La Découverte), pp. 21-40.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2009)‘The Nature and Replication of Routines’, in Markus C. Becker and Nathalie Lazaric (eds) (2009) Organizational Routines: Advancing Empirical Research (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp. 26-44.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2010) ’ Limits of Transaction Cost Analysis’ in Peter G. Klein and Mike Sykuta (eds) (2010) The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics (Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, pp. 297-306.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2010)‘Albert Schäffle’s Critique of Socialism’, in John Vint, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori and Paul A. Samuelson (eds) (2010), Economic Theory and Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of Ian Steedman (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 296-315.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011)‘Complexity, Habits and Evolution’, in Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey (eds) (2011) The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management (Los Angeles: SAGE), pp. 557-69.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011)‘Evolutionary Approaches’, in Ian C. Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla (eds) (2011) The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Los Angeles: SAGE), pp. 413-28.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen (2008) ‘The Complex Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: the Functions and Implications of Habit’, in János Kornai, Lásló Mátyás and Gérard Roland (eds) (2008) Institutional Change and Economic Behaviour (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan for International Economic Association), pp. 178-99.
Pavel Luksha (2010) ‘Institutional entrepreneurship in market creation: the case of credit default swaps’, in V.Maevsky, S.Kirdina (eds) Evolutionary Economics and Finance: Innovations, Competition and Economic Growth. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Evolutionary Economics, Moscow: Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian)
Pavel Luksha (2010) ‘School 2020: Pragmatic strategies of school education as a key factor of long-term development of human capital in Russia’, in L.Lyashko (ed.) Education of the Future (in Russian).