Peter Herrmann

Peter Herrmann studied sociology (Bielefeld, FRG), economics (Hamburg, FRG) and political science (Leipzig, GDR). After obtaining his doctorate in Bremen, he worked in various teaching and research positions in the fields of social policy, social economy, economics and law abroad (including China, Cuba, Finland, France, Ireland, Hungary and Russia). He is, among other things, senior advisor to the Association for Social Quality (Amsterdam), member of the scientific committee of the Institute for Political, Economic and Social Studies (EURISPES - Istituto di Studi Politici, Economici e Sociali, Rome) and fellow at the Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting, Lomonossow Moscow State University.

Main Research Interest

Systemic relationship between law and economy
Digitization and capital structure
Extended regulation theory and digitisation

Selected Publications:

Monographs

Social Policy – Production rather than Distribution. A Rights-Based Approach; Bremen/Oxford: EHV Academic Press; 2014; 253 pages; 978-3-86741-744-0
Opening Views against the Closure of the World (Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives); New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2016
Right to Stay – Right to Move; Bad Vöslau: Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung in Vienna Academic Press Verlags GmbH, 2019
Value Theory – is there still any value in it? Revisiting Value and Valuation in a Globalising Digital World; New York: Nova; forthcoming
Digitisation – Employment – and What? An Attempt to Socio-Locate the Challenge of Today’s Productivity-Puzzle; forthcoming

Edited Books

Okyayuz, Mehmet/Herrmann, Peter/Dorrity, Claire (eds.): Migration – global processes caught in national answers; Vienna: WVFS, 2014 – ISBN 978-3-94469-008-7; 228 pages
Together with Peter Szynka (eds.): Durchbrüche ins Soziale; Eine Festschrift für Rudolph Bauer; Vienna: WVFS, 2014; 320 pages; 978-3-94469-022-3
together with Bobkov, Viacheslav/Csoba, Judit (eds.): Labour Market and Precarity of Employment: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Data from Hungary and Russia; Vienna: WVFS; 2014; 262 pages; 978-3-94469-030-8
together with Grinin, Leonid E./Ilyin, Ilya V./Korotayev, Andrey V., 2015: Globalistics and Globalization Studies. Big history & Global History; Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2015
as editor, together with Ka Lin, 2015: Social Quality Theory. A New Perspective on Social Development; Oxford/New York: Berghahn
as editor together with Zhouxiang, Lu: Conflict and Communication: A Changing Asia in a Globalising World; New York: Nova; 2016
as editor together with Grinin, Leonid E./Ilyin, Ilya V./Korotayev, Andrey V: Globalistics and Globalization Studies; Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2016
together with Grinin, Leonid E./Ilyin, Ilya V./Korotayev, Andrey V. (eds.), 2017: Global Evolution, Historical Globalistics and Globalization Studies; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Global Studies/Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Oriental Studies/The Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting International center for education and social humanity research; Volgograd: Uchitel
together with Bobkov, Vyacheslav, forthcoming: Digitisation and Precarisation – Redefining Work and Redefining Society; Heidelberg: Springer

Articles in Major Journals

together with Bobkov, V.N., 2016: Searching for a new way of Thinking Society for Today—Noospheric Social Quality; in: Ekonomika regiona [Economy of Region]. — 2016. — Vol. 12, Issue 2: 451-462 doi 10.17059/2016–2–11
Social Quality – Regaining Political Economy; International Journal for Social Quality, International Journal of Social Quality 6(1), Summer 2016: 88–107; doi: 10.3167/IJSQ.2016.060105
¿Primavera Vaticana? (Vatican Spring?); in: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar; Núm. 19 (décimo aniversario, 2016): 127-162
Social Inclusion – Social Exclusion: Physical Exercise as Means Between Strengthening Individuals and Integration into Collectivities, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33:18, 2287-2306, 2017; DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1363189
Together with Csoba, Judit: Losers, Good Guys, Cool Kids. The Everyday Life of Early School Leavers; in: Economic and Social Changes. Journal edited by the «Russian Public Opinion Research Center» (OAO «VCIOM»); Moscow: 2017, No 6: 276—293. DOI: 10.14515/monitoring.2017.6.15.
Potentials for Taking a Strategic Role for Sustainable Sociability; in: Globalistics and Globalization Studies 2017; Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing: 311–328
TINA said, There is no such thing as society. A short Memorial concerning the intellectual-moral turn of the radical 1980s (original: TINA said, There is no such thing as society. Eine kleine Gedenk-Schrift an die geistig moralische Wende der wilden 1980er; in: Sozial Extra 3 2019: 181–184 doi.org/10.1007/s12054-019-00183-4
For him art, research, creation and politics were the same thing – In memory of Paul Boccara: in: World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) The World Association for Political Economy, Hong Kong; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Center of Economic and Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; WRPE Vol.10, No.1, Spring 2019 (in Print)