Development of a comprehensive evolutionary framework for institution analysis based on naturalism and its applications with a special focus on culture
Recent Thoughts
Recently, I discovered the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce is a father of American pragmatism and of semiotics, and influenced the early American instituionalists. I begin to connect his thought with the modern philosophical positions of externalism and naturalism, especially in the philosophy of mind. Building on this, I hope to create a theory of institutions that treats institutions in a similar way as linguistic artefacts. What makes my mind buzzing is that this approach can be even given a role in the physical context.
Publications
The Economics of Identity and Creativity. A Cultural Science Approach. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2010.
International Market Access Rights and the Evolution of the International Trade System, in: Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 164(2), 2008, 302—326;
Cultural Species and Institutional Change in China, in: Journal of Economic Issues XL(3), 2006: 539-574.
Recent/Ongoing Works
Foundations of Evolutionary Economics – I hope to complete this in 2010.
A Neurolinguistic Approach to Performativity in Economics, Forthcoming in: Journal of Eco-nomic Methodology, Frankfurt School Working Paper Series 123. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1414167 (penultimate version)
