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 …

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 …

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of
scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur-a …

The term “neoclassical economics” was born in 1900; in this paper I am proposing
economist-assisted terminasia; by the powers vested in me as president of the History of …

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic
with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in …

The English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon famously asserted that “knowledge
is power,” but some forms of knowledge are more conducive to power than others. Among …

We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with
'thingifying'processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and …

Value theory forms the bedrock of several economic paradigms. It shapes how economists
think about the purpose and functioning of the system as a whole. I identify three …

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few
years ago, and competition (or'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for …

The transition to a circular economy is often presented as a straightforward, neutral and
apolitical process, characterised by an implicit techno-optimistic and eco-modernist stance …