ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

Part I What is hermeneutics?

chapter 2|15 pages

Towards the native’s point of view

chapter 3|26 pages

Getting beyond objectivism

part |1 pages

Part III Alternative views of economics from a particular philosophical standpoint: hermeneutics 'appropriated’ by neoclassicism, institutionalism, critical theory, and Austrian economics ...

chapter 4|15 pages

Storytelling in economics1

chapter 6|21 pages

The scope and goals of economic science

chapter 7|13 pages

Austrian economics

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Part III Alternative views of hermeneutics from a particular economic standpoint: the controversy in the Austrian school

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Part IV Hermeneutical reason: applications in macro, micro, and public policy