Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Carsten Herrmann- Pillath (* 1959 in Dessau ) is a German economist and sinologist. He is Professor of Business Economics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Director of the East - West Centre for Business Studies and Cultural Science ( ECBC ) of the FS.

Academic Career

After studying economics and Chinese studies, followed by doctoral studies at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Cologne from 1978 to 1988 Herrmann- Pillath was about four years as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies, Cologne, before joining in 1992 as professor of East Asian Economic China and was appointed at the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg. Since 1996 he holds the Chair Evolution and Institutional Economics of the University of Witten / Herdecke. In 2008 he was appointed professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Scientific merit

Herrmann- Pillath is an internationally recognized representative of the evolution -economic and institutional economics and the scientific china ( Sinology ) research in Germany. His research is aimed at developing an interdisciplinary theory of change of the economy in its institutional and cultural embeddedness.

Herrmann- Pillath is the founder and academic director, founded at the University of Witten / Herdecke in 2005, Sino - German School of Governance, which - due to Herrmann- Pillaths change at the Frankfurt School Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - is located there and now rose in the East - West Centre for Business Studies and Cultural Science ( ECBC ). Carsten Herrmann- Pillath is also involved in cross-cultural scientific exchange, eg including through edition of translations into Chinese and Russian, between 1996 and 2002 as editor of the German - Russian magazine POLITEKONOM.

Political action

Carsten Herrmann- Pillath is one of the supporters of the party alternative for Germany.

Publications (selection)

  • Outline of evolutionary economics. UTB, Munich 2002 ISBN 382522340X
  • Social Capital and Networks: A Proposal for Conceptual Integration, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, SSRN link.
  • Cultural Species and Institutional Change in China. in: Journal of Economic Issues XL, Volume 3 (2006 ), pp. 539-574.
  • Diversity, Identity and the Indeterminacy of the Size of Nations. A Critique of the Alesina School of Thought from the Viewpoint of Evolutionary Political Economy. In: European Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 27 (2009), No.1, pp. 15-38.
  • Foundations Of Economic Evolution. A Treatise on the Natural Philosophy of Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84720-474-5.
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