PROVISIONAL DRAFT – DATES AND READING TO BE CONFIRMED
Professor Geoffrey M Hodgson’s Lecture Timetable March 2013
“Eight Great Economists and their Relevance Today” Date Time Topic
Tue 5 March 2013 7:00pm Adam Smith
Wed 6 March 2013 7:00pm Thomas Robert Malthus
Thu 7 March 2013 7:00pm Karl Marx
Tue 12 March 2013 7:00pm Alfred Marshall
Wed 13 March 2013 7:00pm Thorstein Veblen
Tue 19 March 2013 7:00pm John Maynard Keynes
Wed 20 March 2013 7:00pm Joseph Schumpeter
Thu 21 March 2013 7:00pm Friedrich Hayek
These key aspects of the work of each economist will be considered: theory of individual motivation, understanding of problems of knowledge and complexity, theory of capitalist evolution, and overall vision.
Reading
Elliott, John E. (2000) ‘Adam Smith’s Conceptualization of Power, Markets, and Politics’, Review of Social Economy, 58(4), December, pp. 429-54.
Evensky, Jerry (2005) ‘Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: On Morals and Why They Matter to a Liberal Society of Free People and Free Markets’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(3), pp. 109-30.
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (1993) Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back Into Economics (Cambridge, UK and Ann Arbor, MI: Polity Press and University of Michigan Press).
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2004) The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism (London and New York: Routledge). (Also in Chinese Edition)
Hodgson. Geoffrey M. (2004) ‘Malthus, Thomas Robert’ in Donald Rutherford (ed.) The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. (Copy available)
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (unpublished) ‘Come back Marshall, all is Forgiven? Complexity, Evolution, Mathematics and Marshallian Exceptionalism’. (Copy available)
Keynes, John Maynard (1924) ‘Alfred Marshall’, Economic Journal, 34(3), September, pp. 311-72. (Copy available)
Keynes, John Maynard (1937) ‘The General Theory of Employment’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 51(1), February, pp. 209-23. (Copy available)
Marx, Karl (1867) Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, vol. 1(Hamburg: Meissner).
Schumpeter, Joseph A. (1931) ‘The Present World Depression: A Tentative Diagnosis’, American Economic Review Review (Papers and Proceedings), 21(1), Supplement, March, pp. 179-82.
Schumpeter, Joseph A. (1946) ‘John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946’, American Economic Review, 36(4), September, pp. 495-518.
