Geoffrey Martin Hodgson (born 28 July 1946, Watford)[1] is Emeritus Professor in Management at the London campus of Loughborough University, and also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics.

In 1988, Hodgson was involved in setting up the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).

In 2000 Hodgson co-founded The Other Canon, a center and network for heterodox economics research, with main founder and executive chairman Erik Reinert and others.

What Hodgson considers important about institutions is the way that they structure social life and frame our perceptions and preferences.

He argues that: "Generally, institutions enable ordered thought, expectation, and action by imposing form and consistency on human activities".