Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

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Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (born February 24, 1959 in Dessau ) is a German economist and sinologist . He is Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt .

Career

After studying economics and sinology with subsequent doctoral studies at the political science faculty of the University of Cologne from 1978 to 1988, Herrmann-Pillath worked for about four years as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies , Cologne, before becoming professor for East Asian economics in 1992 / China at the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg . Between 1996 and 2008 he held the chair of evolutionary economics and institutional theory at the University of Witten / Herdecke and head of the institute for comparative cultural research. Between 2005 and 2010 he founded and headed the Sino-German School of Governance (SGSG) there. In 2008 he was appointed to the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, where he founded the East West Center for Business Studies and Cultural Science as the successor organization to the SGSG, combined with the 'Master of International Business' course. Between 2015 and 2016 he held the professorship for Economics and Evolutionary Sciences at the private University of Witten / Herdecke. In May 2016 he was appointed as a permanent fellow at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt . He is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University , China.

Act

Herrmann-Pillath is a representative of evolutionary and institutional economics as well as Chinese (sinological) research in Germany. His research aims at developing an interdisciplinary theory of economic change in its institutional and cultural embedding. Based on modern philosophical approaches in ontology and philosophy of language, he understands economics as a bridge science between the natural sciences and the humanities.

Herrmann-Pillath has made internationally recognized contributions to the interdisciplinary foundation of economics, and has applied these approaches to different areas empirically and economically, especially in the field of research into the Chinese economy and international trade policy. He gets the philosophical perspectives from Hegel and Peirce. In the field of evolutionary and ecological economics, he developed a theory of growth with energy and information as fundamental theoretical concepts. He presented a naturalistic theory of institutions and worked it out using the example of money, in which modern neuroeconomics is integrated with Masahiko Aoki's institutional theory. His institutional theory is based on the concept of 'performativity' and builds bridges to the latest developments in sociology and philosophy (including actor-network theory, science and technology studies). In the area of ​​the international economy he proposed the new paradigm of 'deliberative trade policy' and worked it out in analyzes of the WTO. His research on China culminates in a cultural studies theory of the Chinese economy that focuses on the concept of 'ritual'.

Publications (selection)

Books:

  • Foundations of Economic Evolution. A Treatise on the Natural Philosophy of Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2013, ISBN 978-1-84720-474-5 .
  • with Ivan Boldyrev, Hegel, Institutions and Economics: Performing the Social, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, ISBN 978-1-31584-866-2
  • Growth, power and order. An economic-philosophical examination of China, Marburg, Metropolis, ISBN 978-3-7316-1108-0
  • China's Economic Culture: The Ritual Order of State and Markets, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, ISBN 978-1-31588-465-3

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personal data
SURNAME Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , GDR