HODGSON, Geoffrey M. 1946-

PERSONAL: Born July 28, 1946, in Watford, England; son of Peter Kenneth (a headmaster) and Joan Sonia (a headmistress; maiden name, Whiteman) Hodgson; married Vinny Logan (a research nurse), July 26, 1980; children: Sarah Logan, James Thomas. Education: Victoria University of Manchester, B.Sc., 1968, M.A., 1974. Politics: Labour. Religion: Agnostic.

ADDRESSES: Home—Malting House, West Wickham, Cambridge CB1 6SD, England. Office—Malting House, 1 Burton End, West Wickham, Cambridgeshire CB1 6SD, England.

CAREER: University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, professor of economics, 1990-92; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, visiting lecturer in economics, 1992—; Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, global visiting professor, 2001—; University of Hertfordshire, Hertford, England, research professor in business studies. Consultant to Lifespan NHS Trust and Union of Communication Workers.

MEMBER: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (general secretary, 1989—), Royal Economic Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Dehn Prize, University of Manchester, 1974; Clarence E. Ayres Visiting Scholar award, Association for Evolutionary Economics Meeting, 1990.

WRITINGS:

Socialism and Parliamentary Democracy, Spokesman (Nottingham, England), 1977.

Labour at the Crossroads, Martin Robertson (Oxford, England), 1981.

Capitalism, Value, and Exploitation, Martin Robertson (Oxford, England), 1982.

The Democratic Economy, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), 1984.

Economics and Institutions, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1988.

After Marx and Sraffa: Essays in Political Economy, Macmillan (London, England), 1991.

(Editor, with E. Screpanti) Rethinking Economics, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), 1991.

Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back intoEconomics, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.

(Editor) The Economics of Institutions, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), 1993.

(Editor, with W. Samuels and M. Tool) The ElgarCompanion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), 1994.

(Editor) Economics and Biology, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), 1995.

(Editor) The Foundations of Evolutionary Economics:1890-1973, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), 1998.

(Editor, with M. Itoh and N. Yokokawa) Capitalism inEvolution: Global Contentions—East and West, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), in press.

The Political Economy of Utopia, Routledge (London, England), in press.

Evolution and Institutions: Critical Essays on the Reconstruction of Economics, Edward Elgar (Aldershot, England), in press.

How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science, in press.

Contributor of about forty articles to economic and future studies journals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Political Economy of Utopia, for Routledge & Kegan Paul; research on evolutionary and institutional economics.

SIDELIGHTS: Geoffrey M. Hodgson told CA: "I am concerned with making economics a useful, realistic, and practical science, so that it can once again contribute to the alleviation of problems such as poverty, famine, unemployment, and environmental destruction."