Economics and hermeneutics / edited by Don Lavoie.
Economics and Hermeneutics looks at the ways that hermeneutics might help economists address problems such as entrepreneurship, price theory, rational expectations, monetary theory, welfare economics, and economic policy.
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Routledge,
1990.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; WHAT IS HERMENEUTICS?; ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF ECONOMICS FROM A PARTICULAR PHILOSOPHICAL STANDPOINT; ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF HERMENEUTICS FROM A PARTICULAR ECONOMIC STANDPOINT; HERMENEUTICAL REASON: APPLICATIONS IN MACRO, MICRO, AND PUBLIC POLICY; NOTES; REFERENCES; Part I What is hermeneutics?; 2 Towards the native's point of view ; PRELUDE; IS THERE A PROBLEM?; AMPLIFICATION: RUMBLINGS IN THE MARGIN AND OUTSIDE OF ECONOMICS; A ROUNDABOUT WAY OF GETTING TO THE PROBLEM.
- A note of clarificationTHREE WAYS OF DEALING WITH A PROBLEM4; FOUR SUCH STRATEGIES FOR SUBSUMING PROBLEMS; 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; SUBJECTIVISM AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM; RICOEUR'S CRITIQUE OF SUBJECTIVISM; EXPLANATION/UNDERSTANDING; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES.
- Part III Alternative views of economics from a particular philosophical standpoint: hermeneutics 'appropriated' by neoclassicism, institutionalism, critical theory, and Austrian economics ... 4 Storytelling in economics1; NOTE; REFERENCES; 5 The philosophical bases of institutionalist economics; THE DURKHEIM/MAUSS/DOUGLAS THESIS; THE CARTESIAN TRADITION AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMIC THEORY; PRAGMATISM AND PEIRCE; JOHN DEWEY; THE PRAGAMATIC TRADITION AND INSTITUTIONALIST ECONOMIC THEORY; THORSTEIN VEBLEN; JOHN R.COMMONS; POST-1930s INSTITUTIONALISM; REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.
- THE MODERN REVIVAL OF A PRAGMATIST INSTITUTIONALIST ECONOMICSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 6 The scope and goals of economic science ; THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE; MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS AND MODERN CAPITALIST SOCIETY; Keynesian economics and the 'scientization of politics'; Neoclassical economics and distorted communication; EXPANDING THE DOMAIN OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION; 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 AUSTRIANSREFERENCES; Part III Alternative views of hermeneutics from a particular economic standpoint: the controversy in the Austrian school; 8 Practical syllogism, entrepreneurship and the invisible hand ; SYNOPSIS OF THE ARGUMENT; THE CHALLENGE OF VERSTEHEN; PRACTICAL SYLLOGISM AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND THE INVISIBLE HAND; EXPLANATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND THE INVISIBLE HAND; CONCLUSION; ACNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 9 What is a price? Explanation and understanding ; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS A TEXT? EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING.