Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations: Hermeneutics Applied to EconomicsDavid L. Prychitko This text seeks to correct the tendency of economics to be unaffected by literature. It explores the relationship between contemporary hermeneutics and economic theory and suggests that economics can and should open itself to a historical interpretive account of human action. The book contains methodological writings that critically explore the relationship between individual choice and institutional intersubjectivity, as well as theoretical applications which reinterpret market processes as creators and disseminators of contextualized, tacit knowledge. |
Contents
why hermeneutics? | 1 |
Methodological individualism and the Austrian School | 9 |
Individuals and institutions | 19 |
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abstract actors agents Alfred Schutz analysis anonymous argues argument articulate atomistic attempt Austrian Economics Austrian School behavior Boettke central planning Chicago Press classical communication competition concept coordination Critical Review critique dispersed knowledge Ebeling economic calculation equilibrium Essays exchange existence F. A. Hayek fact Gadamer Gadamer's Hayek hermeneutics Hodgson human action human sciences ideal types inarticulate individualist institutional economics institutionalist interpretive intersubjective meaning Israel Kirzner Kirzner knowledge language Lavoie Ludwig Lachmann Ludwig von Mises mainstream Market Process market-socialist models Max Weber Menger method methodological individualism mind Mises's modern monetary nature neoclassical neoclassical economics O'Driscoll object particular phenomenological hermeneutics philosophy Polanyi Political Economy Popper Praxeology problem production Prychitko question Rational Expectations reality relationship Reprinted Ricoeur role saleability scientific scientists Simmel social institutions social order social sciences social theory social world society subjectivism subjectivist theorists tradition typifications understanding unintended consequences University of Chicago York
References to this book
The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights Gary Brent Madison No preview available - 1998 |