Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. His transdisciplinary research covers economic philosophy, evolutionary, ecological and institutional economics, and Chinese studies. In 2023, the summa of his work was published (co-authored with Christian Hederer): ‘A New Principles of Economics. The Science of Markets’ (Routledge). At the Collaborative Research Centre he leads the sub-project on “Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism: Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China.” He is also a principal researcher at the COEVOLVERS project, funded through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation.

Email: carsten.herrmann-pillath@uni-erfurt.de
Website: Personenseite bei der Universität Erfurt

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Publications

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten (2023). Cultural Foundations of Economic Behaviour in China. In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management, von Jane Nolan, Zhao Shuming, und Ken Kamoche, 34–55, 1. Aufl. London: Routledge.: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429448935-5
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath , Simo Sarkki , Timo Maran , Katriina Soini , Juha Hiedanpa¨a (2023) , Nature-based solutions as more-than-human art: Co-evolutionary and co-creative ¨ design approaches, Nature-Based Solutions: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100081
Herrmann-Pillath, C. (2023). Buchrezension zu: Ulrich Bachmann, Thomas Schwinn (Hrsg.): Max Weber revisited. Zur Aktualität eines Klassikers. Beltz Juventa (Weinheim und Basel) 2022.: https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/30383.php
Herrmann-Pillath, C. (2023). The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership. In: Ecological Economics Vol. 208 (2023): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092300085X
Caspary, S.C., Herrmann-Pillath, C. (2023). Rethinking Confucianism: Family Business and the Ritual Construction of the ‘Family’ in Japan and China. In: Koellner, T. (eds) Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5_6
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten (2023). Infrastructure and co-evolutionary technology: Overcoming anthropocentrism in human niche construction: https://technosphere.blog/2023/01/23/infrastructure-and-co-evolutionary-technology-overcoming-anthropocentrism-in-human-niche-construction/
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten and Hederer, Christian (2022). A New Principles of Economics The Science of Markets, New York: Routledge.

Subprojects

C01 Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism: Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China

Principal Investigator