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Prof. Dr. Christian Cordes

	Prof. Dr. Christian Cordes
	Research Group Leader (W2)
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
	phone:	+49 - 3641 - 686 832
	fax:	+49 - 3641 - 686 868
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Curriculum Vitae

1992-1998:	Studies in Economics at Hannover University. 1998: Diplom-Ökonom (M.A. in Economics) at Hannover.
October 1998 to date:	Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena.
2003:	PhD in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
2004:	Guest Researcher at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester.
2005-2006:	Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Davis, Department of Environmental Science and Policy.
2009:	Habilitation in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
2009:	Privatdozent, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Faculty Member, DFG Research Training Group 1411: Economics of Innovative Change
2010:	Currently on leave at the University of Bremen

Research Focus

• The biological and psychological foundations of economic behavior – a naturalistic approach to economics
• The Evolution of Business Cultures
• The determinants of human behavior in an organizational context
• Long-term economic change and its driving forces
• An evolutionary perspective on economic policy making and normative aspects

Working Papers

• "The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: Corporate Cultures and the Generation of Spinoffs" (together with P. Richerson and G. Schwesinger).
• "Role Models that Make You Unhappy – Light Paternalism and Social Learning" (together with C. Schubert).
• "A Cognitive Constraint to Institutional Evolution".
• "The Autocatalytic Character of the Growth of Production Knowledge: What Role Does Human Labor Play?", Papers on Economics & Evolution, #0412 (2004) (together with T. Brenner).

Publications in Refereed Journals

• "How Corporate Cultures Coevolve with the Business Environment: The Case of Firm Growth Crises and Industry Evolution", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming (together with P. Richerson and G. Schwesinger).
• "How Does Opportunistic Behavior Influence Firm Size? An Evolutionary Approach to Organizational Behavior", Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming (together with P. Richerson, R. McElreath, and P. Strimling).
• "Changing Your Role Models: Social Learning and the Engel Curve", Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 38, No. 6, 2009, pp. 957-965.
• "Long-Term Developments in Human Labor and Their Political Implications", Review of Economic Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2009, pp. 81-108.
• "The Role of Biology and Culture in Veblenian Consumption Dynamics", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2009, pp. 115-141.
• "Can Sustainable Consumption Be Learned? A Model of Cultural Evolution", Ecological Economics, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 646-657 (together with G. Buenstorf).
• "A Naturalistic Approach to the Theory of the Firm: The Role of Cooperation and Cultural Evolution", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 68, No. 1, 2008, pp. 125-139 (together with P. Richerson, R. McElreath, and P. Strimling).
• "A Potential Limit on Competition", Journal of Bioeconomics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2008, pp. 127-144.
• "The Role of 'Instincts' in the Development of Corporate Cultures", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2007, pp. 747-764.
• "Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract", Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2007, pp. 35-62 (together with C. Schubert).
• "Can a Generalized Darwinism Be Criticized? A Rejoinder to Geoffrey Hodgson", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2007, pp. 277-281.
• "Turning Economics into an Evolutionary Science: Veblen, the Selection Metaphor, and Analogical Thinking", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2007, pp. 135-154. (reprinted in: U. Witt (ed.): "Recent Developments in Evolutionary Economics", Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008)
• "Darwinism in Economics: From Analogy to Continuity", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2006, pp. 529-541.
• "What Orientation for Interpreting Veblen? A Rejoinder to Baldwin Ranson", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2005, pp. 1065-1069.
• "Long-term Tendencies in Technological Creativity: A Preference-based Approach", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2005, pp. 149-168.
• "Veblen's ‘Instinct of Workmanship,' its Cognitive Foundations, and Some Implications for Economic Theory", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-20.
• "The Human Adaptation for Culture and its Behavioral Implications", Journal of Bioeconomics, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2004, pp. 143-163.

Contributions to Collective Works

• "Emergent Cultural Phenomena and their Cognitive Foundations", in: G. Bünstorf (ed.): Applied Evolutionary Economics, Behavior and Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
• "Selection, Learning, and Schumpeterian Dynamics – A Conceptual Debate", in: H. Hanusch and A. Pyka (eds.): The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007 (together with U. Witt).

Other Publications

• Review of: Corning, Peter: "Holistic Darwinism", in: Review of Economic Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 14, 2006, pp. 85-93.
• "The Restless Nature of Knowledge and Economic Policy Making", comment on J. Schnellenbach: "Vielfalt in der Wirtschaftspolitik: Die Dahrendorf-Hypothese aus ökonomischer Sicht", in: M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, A. Ebner, and D. Fornahl (eds.): Institutioneller Wandel, Marktprozesse und dynamische Wirtschaftspolitik: Perspektiven der Evolutorischen Ökonomik, Marburg: Metropolis, 2004.
• Review of: Verbeek, Bernhard: "Anthropologie der Umweltzerstörung", in: F. Beckenbach et al. (eds.): Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik, Band 3, Marburg: Metropolis, 2003.
• "An Evolutionary Analysis of Long-term Qualitative Change in Human Labor", PhD Dissertation, Jena: Friedrich Schiller University, 2003 (library signature JA 00.32).
• "Langfristige wirtschaftliche Entwicklung – ein evolutionärer Ansatz", Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 29 (2000): 711-713 (together with G. Bünstorf, W. Ruprecht, C. Sartorius, and U. Witt).

Editorial Work

• Since 2009: Editorial board member of the Journal of Economic Issues

Other Professional Activities

• Since 2008: Member of the board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and since 2009 SABE country representative for Germany
  For more information on SABE's mission and agenda please visit http://sabeonline.org/
• Since 2009: Member of the Committee for Evolutionary Economics within the Verein für Socialpolitik

Media Coverage

• Interview in the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung"
• Interview with the German radio station "Deutschlandfunk" (in German): "Entrepreneur und Stammesführer – Ein naturalistischer Ansatz zur Theorie der Firma", Studiozeit, am 19.06.2008.