I have given individual lectures, or series of lectures, at many academic institutions throughout the world.

Past and possible lectures include:

Broader and More Topical Issues

• The Great Crash of 2008 and the reform of economics
• Brakes on Chinese economic development
• Mathematics and modern economics
• Business evolution and the costs of change
• Economics, sociology and the prospects for a unified social science
• Darwinism and the social sciences
• From pleasure machines to moral communities
• The evolution of morality and the end of economic man

Institutional Theory and Methodology

• What are institutions?
• The old and the new institutional economics: how are they different?
• Meanings of methodological individualism
• Institutional economics into the twenty-first century
• Institutional and evolutionary economics as the new mainstream?
• The emergence of institutions: the example of a traffic convention
• Emergent properties and the critique of reductionism
• Causality and agency
• Institutionalism versus Marxism
• The problem of historical specificity
• Social formations and levels of abstraction
• The shifting boundaries of economics and sociology
• Rationality and cooperation
• Moral sentiments and moral communities
• Morality and cooperation in business

A History of the Original Institutional Economics

• The German historical school
• Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism
• Thorstein Veblen's success and failure
• The metamorphosis of institutionalism
• John R. Commons and the tangled jungle
• Wesley Mitchell and the rise of macroeconomics
• The evolution of Clarence Ayres

General Principles of Socio-Economic Evolution

• Introduction and historical background
• Generalizing Darwinism
• Rival and rebuttals
• The Lamarckian confusion
• The principle of selection and its application to social evolution
• Information, complexity and generative replication
• From group selection to organizational interactors
• Major informational transitions in social evolution
• Conclusions and agenda for future research

Firms, Markets and Capitalism

• Property, exchange, markets and firms
• The legal nature of the firm and the myth of the firm-market hybrid
• Opportunism is not the only reason why firms exist
• Morality and cooperation in business
• Firm-specific learning and the nature of the firm
• The nature and replication of routines
• Knowledge at work: some neoliberal anachronisms
• Capital and capitalism
• The nature of capitalism
• The historical specificity of capitalism
• Socialis versus capitalism
• Varieties of capitalism
• The future of capitalism

Applications and Legal Aspects of Institutional Economics

• The enforcement of contracts and property rights: constitutive versus epiphenomenal conceptions of law
• On the institutional foundations of law: the insufficiency of custom and private ordering
• The economics of corruption and the corruption of economics
• Institutions, recessions and recovery in the transitional economies
• An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics
• Institutional and structural brakes on Chinese economic development

The above repertoire of over thirty lectures is indicative and flexible. Lectures can be modified and combined in various ways. If you wish to invite me to give a lecture or a lecture course, then please email g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk