From Marx to Markets
From Marx to Markets:
An Intellectual Odyssey
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
To be published in 2025
Edward Elgar Publishing
This is an account of my intellectual evolution. It traces some important threads in my thinking, and the circumstances that affected them. I have changed my mind on several things. But hopefully, I have learned something useful. It is a quest, since my birth in 1946, to understand a complex and rapidly evolving world. Along this journey, I have changed my mind on several things, but not on the importance of building a better system, wherein all people can freely develop and flourish, and with full respect for human rights. What has changed, is my view on how best those improvements can be realized.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Histories
1. Science and the Cold War
2. Revolution and youth
3. Crises in theory and in reality
4. A road less travelled
5. Britain under the Iron Lady
6. Rummaging the attic of past ideas
Part II: Themes
7. The nature and importance of definitions
8. The future of evolutionary economics
9. The development of institutional analysis
10. After the Great Crash: socialism versus liberal solidarity
11. Building an economics for a better world
Appendices
List of works partly or wholly by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Other references
Index