Carsten Herrmann Pillath
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 914751 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carsten Herrmann Pillath |
| NOMBRES | Carsten Herrmann |
| APELLIDO | Pillath |
| FIRMA | PILLATH C H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6078-0078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Green infrastructure, native gentrification, and socialist property regimes in Shenzhen, China
Urban villages have been essential for rapid growth of the megacity Shenzhen, home of millions of migrant workers and built by native villagers. Recent initiatives of redeveloping the urban villages emphasize green infrastructure, which is often associated with the downside of gentrification. In Shenzhen, shareholding cooperatives of native villagers play a significant role in those developments, against the background of varying property arrange…
Interaction ritual chains and religious economy
This paper explores the theory of ‘interaction ritual chains’ proposed by the sociologist Randall Collins in understanding popular religion in China today. It contributes to ongoing conceptual debates over approaching Chinese religions and draws conclusions for general socio-economic theory. We concentrate on the specific phenomenon of the resurgence of ancestor worship and lineage rituals which we have explored in fieldwork done in Shenzhen metr…
The universal commons
A key question in ecological transformation is what the law can contribute, beyond mere regulatory schemes. One strand is defined by the 'rights of nature' concept. Another emerging idea is to recognize living systems as property holders. This paper elaborates on the latter in presenting a new synthesis that is inspired by medieval conceptions of the commons: The new commons are regimes of co-habitation and shared access to land while assigning t…
Roundtable
human realm.Since the journal is published in an open-volume format, this editorial does not provide an overview of the contributions, which will be the task of an editorial postscript.We have received contributions covering foundational philosophy, AI in music, the role of culture in Earth system sciences, semiotics as a window to animal cultures, and many more
Reforming Global Governance
The 7th Global China Dialogue was organised by Global China Academy and ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, with support from Tsinghua University, China, for organising speakers from China, on the 10th December at the British Academy, London. Presented here are summaries of special addresses of Opening and Closing sessions and abstracts of panel speeches. Full speeches will be published in Reforming Global G…
Narratives and Economic Policy
Increasingly, economists study narratives and their causal impact on economic processes. This paper proposes a new theoretical framework of narrative analysis that is based on the philosophy of language, especially speech act theory, motivated by the observation that, so far, the economic approaches focus on the representational function of narratives and tend to emphasize negative consequences of biased, distorted, and simplified representation.…
Biosemiotic Foundations of a Darwinian Approach to Cultural Evolution
The present paper reflects on the state of evolutionary approaches to culture, which are mostly seen as essential for defining ‘cultural science’. They manifest two flaws that still block a productive synthesis between the sciences and the humanities. First, they employ an inflationary generic concept of culture that covers all information that is stored and transmitted non-genetically; this differs from the narrower uses in the humanities that f…
Evolutionary mechanisms of choice
Hayek’s seminal contribution to theoretical neurosciences, The Sensory Order (1952) remains neglected in current efforts at integrating the neurosciences, psychology and economics. I defend the view that Hayek presents the case for an evolutionary alternative to leading paradigms in the field and look at two in more detail: the good-based model in neuroeconomics and the dual systems approach in behavioural economics. In both cases, essential Haye…
Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics
The concept of ‘narratives’ is one of the ‘animal spirits’ in the 2009 book that Robert Schiller co-authored with another Nobel laureate, George Akerlof (Akerlof and Shiller, 2009). Since then, Shiller has developed the program of a ‘narrative economics’, with milestones such as the 2017 American Economic Association address (Shiller, 2017). The book Narrative Economics summarizes the state of the art of this emerging research program and introdu…
Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development
Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies…
The art of co-creation
Religious individualisation in China
Exploring Extended Kinship in Twenty-First-Century China
Many observers of contemporary China notice the revival of the so-called traditional culture. This includes the public presence of rituals and artefacts that relate with traditional kinship, such as ancestral halls. This article explores a case in Shenzhen, the Huang lineage and the larger surname group. A methodological issue looms large: What exactly was the “tradition” that is perceived as reviving? The field of historical studies on Chinese k…
Towards a semiotic theory of the corporation
The firm is the central institution of modern capitalism, predominantly in the shape of the “corporation” in which entrepreneurs and investors cooperate under certain legal forms, especially limited liability. Although in modern capitalism, the emergence of these legal and organizational forms was intimately tied to technological innovation and the ongoing deployment of technologies, most economic theories about the corporation tend to neglect it…
Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis
Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on 'common pot' dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the 'common pot' in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol manifesting the strength and public role of local lineages in the rapidly growing mega-city. We …
The Case for a New Discipline
Cooperation and authoritarian values
Fei Xiaotong's Comparative Theory of Chinese Culture
This article argues in favour of the triangulation of emic and etic methods in the comparative study of culture, taking China as a case. Starting from an indig-enous theory of cultural comparisons, Fei Xiaotong's concepts of 'group pattern' (tuanti geju) versus 'differential pattern' (chaxu geju), I review the contemporary literature on 'collectivism' in social psychology and management sciences. The article shows that Fei anticipated major revis…
Energy, growth, and evolution
Marktwirtschaft in China
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
The evolutionary approach to entropy
Social capital, Chinese style
China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data shows China to be a high-trust, achievement-oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that one difficulty results from methodological issues in research on social capital, where a universally accepted theory of social capital is lacking, including…
China’s Monetary Challenges
Competitive Governments, Fiscal Arrangements, and the Provision of Local Public Infrastructure in China
This article introduces the analytical framework of "government competition", which encompasses current models of Chinese local government like the "developmental" or "entrepreneurial state" as special cases. The argument is based on a detailed empirical case study of Gujiao Municipality (Shanxi Province) which is put into perspective with reference to two other cases (Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, and Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province). It is argue…
Social capital, Chinese style
China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data shows China to be a high-trust, achievement-oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that one difficulty results from methodological issues in research on social capital, where a universally accepted theory of social capital is lacking, including…
Fei Xiaotong's Comparative Theory of Chinese Culture
This article argues in favour of the triangulation of emic and etic methods in the comparative study of culture, taking China as a case. Starting from an indig-enous theory of cultural comparisons, Fei Xiaotong's concepts of 'group pattern' (tuanti geju) versus 'differential pattern' (chaxu geju), I review the contemporary literature on 'collectivism' in social psychology and management sciences. The article shows that Fei anticipated major revis…
Exploring Extended Kinship in Twenty-First-Century China
Many observers of contemporary China notice the revival of the so-called traditional culture. This includes the public presence of rituals and artefacts that relate with traditional kinship, such as ancestral halls. This article explores a case in Shenzhen, the Huang lineage and the larger surname group. A methodological issue looms large: What exactly was the “tradition” that is perceived as reviving? The field of historical studies on Chinese k…
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
What have we learnt from 20 years of economic research into culture
Economics is undergoing a process of methodological naturalization, i.e. further converging with the sciences. Simultaneously, in past decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the role of culture in the economy. Yet this does not imply an opening up to the humanities, both in the broad sense and in the sense of cultural studies. This article is a stock-taking exercise. I briefly summarize recent economic work on culture and show that this…
Reciprocity and the hidden constitution of world trade
The universal commons
A key question in ecological transformation is what the law can contribute, beyond mere regulatory schemes. One strand is defined by the 'rights of nature' concept. Another emerging idea is to recognize living systems as property holders. This paper elaborates on the latter in presenting a new synthesis that is inspired by medieval conceptions of the commons: The new commons are regimes of co-habitation and shared access to land while assigning t…
Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development
Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies…
Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis
Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on 'common pot' dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the 'common pot' in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol manifesting the strength and public role of local lineages in the rapidly growing mega-city. We …
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
Problems in the Development of Small and Medium-Size Industrial Enterprises in China
Marktwirtschaft in China
Problems in the Development of Small and Medium-Size Industrial Enterprises in China
Competitive Governments, Fiscal Arrangements, and the Provision of Local Public Infrastructure in China
This article introduces the analytical framework of "government competition", which encompasses current models of Chinese local government like the "developmental" or "entrepreneurial state" as special cases. The argument is based on a detailed empirical case study of Gujiao Municipality (Shanxi Province) which is put into perspective with reference to two other cases (Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, and Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province). It is argue…
Reciprocity and the hidden constitution of world trade
International Market Access Rights and the Evolution of the International Trade System
In international trade policy, the concept of market access is pivotal. Yet, it remains a neglected category in institutional-economics approaches to international trade. The paper introduces a new analytical category, which relates explicitly to the exchange of market access among governments: market access rights (MARs). Tariffs, quotas, standards, border controls, etc. are all treated as specific institutional forms of MARs. Major aspects of t…
Social capital, Chinese style
China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data shows China to be a high-trust, achievement-oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that one difficulty results from methodological issues in research on social capital, where a universally accepted theory of social capital is lacking, including…
What have we learnt from 20 years of economic research into culture
Economics is undergoing a process of methodological naturalization, i.e. further converging with the sciences. Simultaneously, in past decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the role of culture in the economy. Yet this does not imply an opening up to the humanities, both in the broad sense and in the sense of cultural studies. This article is a stock-taking exercise. I briefly summarize recent economic work on culture and show that this…
The evolutionary approach to entropy
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
Marktwirtschaft in China
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
Energy, growth, and evolution
Fei Xiaotong's Comparative Theory of Chinese Culture
This article argues in favour of the triangulation of emic and etic methods in the comparative study of culture, taking China as a case. Starting from an indig-enous theory of cultural comparisons, Fei Xiaotong's concepts of 'group pattern' (tuanti geju) versus 'differential pattern' (chaxu geju), I review the contemporary literature on 'collectivism' in social psychology and management sciences. The article shows that Fei anticipated major revis…
Cooperation and authoritarian values
The Case for a New Discipline
Religious individualisation in China
Exploring Extended Kinship in Twenty-First-Century China
Many observers of contemporary China notice the revival of the so-called traditional culture. This includes the public presence of rituals and artefacts that relate with traditional kinship, such as ancestral halls. This article explores a case in Shenzhen, the Huang lineage and the larger surname group. A methodological issue looms large: What exactly was the “tradition” that is perceived as reviving? The field of historical studies on Chinese k…
Towards a semiotic theory of the corporation
The firm is the central institution of modern capitalism, predominantly in the shape of the “corporation” in which entrepreneurs and investors cooperate under certain legal forms, especially limited liability. Although in modern capitalism, the emergence of these legal and organizational forms was intimately tied to technological innovation and the ongoing deployment of technologies, most economic theories about the corporation tend to neglect it…
Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis
Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on 'common pot' dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the 'common pot' in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol manifesting the strength and public role of local lineages in the rapidly growing mega-city. We …
The art of co-creation
Narratives and Economic Policy
Increasingly, economists study narratives and their causal impact on economic processes. This paper proposes a new theoretical framework of narrative analysis that is based on the philosophy of language, especially speech act theory, motivated by the observation that, so far, the economic approaches focus on the representational function of narratives and tend to emphasize negative consequences of biased, distorted, and simplified representation.…
Biosemiotic Foundations of a Darwinian Approach to Cultural Evolution
The present paper reflects on the state of evolutionary approaches to culture, which are mostly seen as essential for defining ‘cultural science’. They manifest two flaws that still block a productive synthesis between the sciences and the humanities. First, they employ an inflationary generic concept of culture that covers all information that is stored and transmitted non-genetically; this differs from the narrower uses in the humanities that f…
Evolutionary mechanisms of choice
Hayek’s seminal contribution to theoretical neurosciences, The Sensory Order (1952) remains neglected in current efforts at integrating the neurosciences, psychology and economics. I defend the view that Hayek presents the case for an evolutionary alternative to leading paradigms in the field and look at two in more detail: the good-based model in neuroeconomics and the dual systems approach in behavioural economics. In both cases, essential Haye…
Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics
The concept of ‘narratives’ is one of the ‘animal spirits’ in the 2009 book that Robert Schiller co-authored with another Nobel laureate, George Akerlof (Akerlof and Shiller, 2009). Since then, Shiller has developed the program of a ‘narrative economics’, with milestones such as the 2017 American Economic Association address (Shiller, 2017). The book Narrative Economics summarizes the state of the art of this emerging research program and introdu…
Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development
Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies…
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