- •Contents
- •Acknowledgements
- •Notes on contributors
- •1 Introduction
- •WHAT IS HERMENEUTICS?
- •ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF HERMENEUTICS FROM A PARTICULAR ECONOMIC STANDPOINT
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •2 Towards the native’s point of view
- •PRELUDE
- •IS THERE A PROBLEM?
- •A note of clarification
- •THREE WAYS OF DEALING WITH A PROBLEM4
- •ECONOMICS ACCORDING TO PICTURE I
- •IRONY IN PICTURE I
- •PICTURE II FOR ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
- •THE NATIVE’S POINT OF VIEW
- •CONCLUSION
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •3 Getting beyond objectivism
- •INTRODUCTION
- •HERMENEUTICS
- •GADAMER’S CRITIQUE OF OBJECTIVISM
- •RICOEUR’S CRITIQUE OF SUBJECTIVISM
- •EXPLANATION/UNDERSTANDING
- •CONCLUSION
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •4 Storytelling in economics1
- •NOTE
- •REFERENCES
- •5 The philosophical bases of institutionalist economics
- •THE DURKHEIM/MAUSS/DOUGLAS THESIS
- •PRAGMATISM AND PEIRCE
- •JOHN DEWEY
- •THORSTEIN VEBLEN
- •JOHN R.COMMONS
- •POST-1930s INSTITUTIONALISM
- •REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
- •ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •6 The scope and goals of economic science
- •Keynesian economics and the ‘scientization of politics’
- •Neoclassical economics and distorted communication
- •TOWARD A CRITICAL ECONOMIC SCIENCE
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •7 Austrian economics
- •INTRODUCTION
- •WHY HERMENEUTICS?
- •WHAT IS HERMENEUTICS?
- •INSTITUTIONS AND THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL
- •HERMENEUTICAL ALLIES OF THE AUSTRIANS
- •REFERENCES
- •8 Practical syllogism, entrepreneurship and the invisible hand
- •SYNOPSIS OF THE ARGUMENT
- •THE CHALLENGE OF VERSTEHEN
- •CONCLUSION
- •ACNOWLEDGEMENTS
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •9 What is a price? Explanation and understanding
- •INTRODUCTION
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •10 The economics of rationality and the rationality of economics
- •INTRODUCTION
- •Description of RE theory
- •Psychological versus philosophical critiques of RE
- •EPISTEMIC ANALYSIS OF RE
- •The problem of epistemic regress
- •THE METHOD OF FOUNDATIONALISM
- •Problems with foundationalism
- •Foundationalism and economic methodology
- •Problems with positivism
- •THE COHERENCE STRATEGY
- •Coherence theory and rational economics
- •Problems with coherence theories
- •The lack of empirical inputs
- •Inter-system indeterminacy
- •Ambiguous coherence criteria
- •Vicious circularity
- •A problematic view of truth
- •Language as a mediator
- •Addressing the problem of relativism
- •ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •11 On the microfoundations of money
- •PHILOSOPHIC BACKGROUND
- •TOOLS AND METHODS
- •MONEY AND MARKETS
- •SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
- •ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •12 Self-interpretation, attention, and language
- •SELF-INTERPRETING UTILITY FUNCTIONS
- •SOCIAL THEORY AS PRACTICE
- •WHAT IS A GOOD?
- •ATTENTION AND LANGUAGE
- •ATTENTION AND ECONOMICS
- •IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
- •HERMENEUTICAL EXPECTATIONS
- •CONCLUSION
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •13 What a non-Paretian welfare economics would have to look like
- •INTRODUCTION
- •HOW DO NON-PARETIAN APPROACHES DIFFER?
- •A central problem
- •Developing a standard
- •Aggregation
- •WHAT AN ACTUAL STANDARD MIGHT LOOK LIKE
- •Discovery and innovation
- •Complexity
- •Provision of consumer goods
- •SECOND-BEST CONSIDERATIONS
- •A NON-FOUNDATIONALIST APPROACH
- •CONCLUDING COMMENTS
- •ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •14 The hermeneutical view of freedom
- •WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF SIGNIFICANCE
- •THE ‘IS’ WITHIN THE ‘OUGHT’
- •REASON, SPEECH AND PRICES
- •THE SATISFACTION OF GENERATED WANTS
- •PROCESS AND ORDER
- •Advertising
- •Property rights
- •CONCLUSION: COMPETITION AND LIBERTY
- •NOTES
- •REFERENCES
- •Index
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