While the regional economic integration encompassing the former Soviet Union (FSU) transpiresto be inefficient, there appears to be a stronger interest in regionalism in smaller groupsof more homogenous and geographically connected countries of the region, specifically, CentralAsia. Using a new...

Building on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, recent advances in biosemiotics haveresulted into a concise framework for the analysis of signs in living systems. This paper exploresthe potential for economics and shows how biosemiotics can integrate two differentresearch agendas, each of...

China’s rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via theforce of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. Thispaper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principlesin economics,...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the innovative performance of China’s NIS ininternational comparison and the capacity of China’s NIS in creating indigenous innovation.We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using patent families to determine the valueof the underlying...

Recently, Aoki proposed the concept of substantive institutions which relates outcomes ofstrategic interaction with public representations of equilibrium states of games. I argue thatthe Aoki model can be grounded in theories of distributed cognition and performativity,which I put into the...