Geoffrey Hodgson’s Institutional Economics: Veblenian Origins and Beyond

Felipe Quintão de Almeida

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology2023https://doi.org/10.1108/s0743-41542023000041a010book-chapter
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This study is a comment on Geoffrey Hodgson’s “Discovering Institutionalism: One Person’s Journey.” In this self-description of the evolution of his thought, Hodgson distinctly acknowledges Thorstein Veblen’s influence on his own institutional perspective. This is the issue that I explore in this study. My argument is that Hodgson can be understood as a Veblenian, but he does not fit in the Veblenian notion that became popular in the mid-twentieth century. I argue that Hodgson’s notion of habits is the strongest Veblen’s influence on him, and his reconstitutive downward and upward causations are in line with Veblen’s institutionalism, albeit without the mid-twentieth century Veblenian writings. I also address the approach to the content of habits as a break between Hodgson’s and Veblen’s institutionalism. By offering an unprecedented Veblenianism, I argue that Hodgson’s institutional economics can be understood as a new institutionalist segmentation.

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@article{felipe2023,
  title        = {{Geoffrey Hodgson’s Institutional Economics: Veblenian Origins and Beyond}},
  author       = {Felipe Quintão de Almeida},
  journal      = {Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology},
  year         = {2023},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/s0743-41542023000041a010},
}

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