Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice

List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Methodological Subjectivism and Interpretive Approach in Political Economy; Part 1 Some Theoretical Issues; 2. Subjectivism in the Austrian School of Economics (with Gary M. Shiu); 3. Frank H. Knight's Thought Revisited: Subjectivism, Interpretation and Social Economics; 4. Two Perspectives of Time in Economics: The Orthodox Neoclassical School (Newtonian) versus the Austrian School (Bergsonian); 5. Human Action and Coordination in Two Subjectivist Perspectives; 6. Subjectivism, Understanding and the Transaction Costs Paradigm; Part 2 Applications; 7. Blowing a Breath of Life into the Firm: Toward a Lachmannian Perspective of the Firm; 8. Expectation, Subjective Time Preference and Business Cycles; 9. Toward a Theory of Social Construction of National Identity (with Diana S. Kwan); 10. Novelty and Intersubjective Communication: From Denial to Acceptance of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings; 11. The Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic: Mental Inertia and Coordination Failures; 12. A Subjectivist Approach to Advertising: The Case of Vitasoy in Hong Kong (with Diana S. Kwan); 13. Outcomes-Based Education: A Subjectivist Critique; Index.