Making economics more relevant
An interview with Geoffrey Hodgson
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v3i2.56Keywords:
Geoffrey Hodgson, institutional economics, generalized Darwinism, evolutionary economics, informal economics, pluralismAbstract
During a visit to Erasmus University Rotterdam in November 2009 Professor Hodgson granted the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics the opportunity to discuss many of these issues extensively. The interview ranged widely over such topics as the relationship between institutional and neoclassical economics; the methodological challenges in institutional economics; the potential role of biological and evolutionary ideas in the social sciences; and the role of economics and economists in the recent economic crisis and how the profession should change.