霍奇遜出生於1946年，畢業於劍橋大學，現為英國哈特福德大學（University of Hertfordshire）教授、博士生導師，制度經濟學研究中心主任，被聘為法國、奧地利、瑞典、日本、美國等多所大學的客座教授，並曾在劍橋大學任教8年。
在英國著名的Edward Elgar出版社舉行的一次經濟學家排名調查中（該調查依據引用率分析），Hodgson教授在現在1168名經濟學家中名列64名，著名的Tom Coupe曾以650種社會科學期刊綜合引用指數對所有在世1000名的經濟學家進行了一次排名，Hodgson教授名列世界第62位，英國第二。迄今為止，Hodgson教授已經出版10多部專著和170多篇學術論文。作為當代制度經濟學和演化經濟學的傑出經濟學，Hodgson教授復興了舊制度經濟學派的研究方法，並對其進行全面的創新，開創了“制度演化經濟學”這一經濟學的嶄新領域。Hodgson教授的研究成果已成為從事制度經濟學和演化經濟學研究的學者必不可少的參考文獻。
霍奇遜跟中國學術界交往密切。目前主要是每年前往山東大學經濟研究院（中心）講學兩個月，另外也常常到我國其他高校做學術報告。
著作
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2012.(With Thorbjørn Knudsen) Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Economía institucional y evolutiva contemporánea (in Spanish), with an introduction by Bruno Gandlegruber and Arturo Lara Rivero, Universida Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 2007.
Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006.
The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism, Routledge, London, 2004.
How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science, Routledge, London, 2001. (Also in Chinese edition.)
Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1999.
Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History, Routledge, London, 1999.
Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, Polity Press, Cambridge and University of Michigan Press, 1993. (Also in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese editions.)
After Marx and Sraffa: Essays in Political Economy, Macmillan Press, London, 1991.
Economics and Institutions: A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics, Polity Press, Cambridge, and University of Pennsylvania Press,Philadelphia, 1988. (Also in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian editions.)
The Democratic Economy: A New Look at Planning, Markets and Power, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1984. (Partly translated into Turkish.)
Capitalism, Value and Exploitation, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1982. (Also in Chinese edition.)
Labour at the Crossroads, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1981.
Socialism and Parliamentary Democracy, Spokesman, Nottingham, 1977. (Also in Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Japanese editions.)
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編輯著作
Volumes partly or wholly edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson:Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen(edited with Charles Camic), Routledge, London and New York, 2011.
Darwinism and Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009.
The Evolution of Economic Institutions: A Critical Reader, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007.
Recent Developments in Institutional Economics, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003.
A Modern Reader in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics: Key Concepts, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002. (Also in a Chinese edition).
Capitalism in Evolution: Global Contentions – East and West (edited with Makoto Itoh and Nobuharu Yokokawa) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001.
The Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: 1890-1973, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998.
Economics and Biology, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1995.
The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics (edited with Warren J. Samuels and Marc R. Tool) Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1994.
The Economics of Institutions, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1993.
Rethinking Economics (edited with Ernesto Screpanti), Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1991.
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