Since retiring in 2000, Jerald Hage has published five books. The three most recent provide a complete theory for the discipline. Knowledge Evolution and Institutional Transformations (2020) argues that the major driver of social change is knowledge growth, which makes problems more complex that in turn require more complex solutions. Saving Societies From Within (with Valadez and Hadden, 2024) indicates that systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks or SCIONs are a superior mode of coordination when compared to markets and state coordination for some situations and especially complex problems and provides data for it. Solving the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy (Hadden, 2025) uses this idea to address four major crises: the lack of radical innovation, absence of diverse skill set trained individuals, exploding health and welfare costs, and the lack of balance between order and freedom in community security. These books provide an alternative to organizing society than socialism and can potentially help build a post-capitalism and post-democracy while reducing social inequality and the movement towards authoritarianism. Together they raise the status of sociology and help solve its recruitment problems by creating new caree
In addition, two of his previous published books have been republished, Social Causality (with Meeker) and State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Caused the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy for the Period 1870-1968, (with Hanneman and Gargan). Hage was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015). He has held several Fulbright Grants to Chile.