Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xvi

Acknowledgements

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - Methodological Subjectivism and Interpretive Approach in Political Economy

pp 3-22

Part 1 - Some Theoretical Issues

pp 23-24

2 - Subjectivism in the Austrian School of Economics

pp 25-46

3 - Frank H. Knight's Thought Revisited: Subjectivism, Interpretation and Social Economics

pp 47-62

4 - Two Perspectives of Time in Economics: The Orthodox Neoclassical School (Newtonian) versus the Austrian School (Bergsonian)

pp 63-78

5 - Human Action and Coordination in Two Subjectivist Perspectives

pp 79-98

6 - Subjectivism, Understanding and the Transaction Costs Paradigm

pp 99-106

Part 2 - Applications

pp 107-108

7 - Blowing a Breath of Life into the Firm: Toward a Lachmannian Perspective of the Firm

pp 109-120

8 - Expectation, Subjective Time Preference and Business Cycles

pp 121-136

9 - Toward a Theory of Social Construction of National Identity

pp 137-160

10 - Novelty and Intersubjective Communication: From Denial to Acceptance of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings

pp 161-180

11 - The Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic: Mental Inertia and Coordination Failures

pp 181-198

12 - A Subjectivist Approach to Advertising: The Case of Vitasoy in Hong Kong

pp 199-214

13 - Outcomes- Based Education: A Subjectivist Critique

pp 215-232

Index

pp 233-241