Introduction: why hermeneutics?, David L. Prychitko. Part 1 Beyond economic man: methodological individualism and the Austrian school, David L. Prychitko; individuals and institutions, Peter J. Boettke; how individualistic is methodological individualism?, G.B. Madison. Part 2 Institutional co-ordination - the interpretive dimension: interpretive reasoning and the study of social life, Peter J. Boettke; co-operation in anonymity, Richard M. Ebeling; Ludwig Lachmann and the interpretive turn in economics - a critical inquiry into the hermeneutics of the plan, David L. Prychitko. Part 3 New interpretations of the market process: the market as a procedure for the discovery and conveyance of inarticulate knowledge, Don Lavoie; toward a hermeneutical economics - expectations, prices and the role of interpretation in a theory of the market process, Richard M. Ebeling; monetary exchange as an extra-linguistic social communication process, Steven Horwitz.