Subjectivism, social structures and the possibility of socio-economic order. The case of Ludwig Lachmann

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11625801
AutoresPaul Lewis (0000-0002-1459-3981, King's College London), Jochen Runde (0000-0001-9596-5144, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume62
Fascículo2
Páginas167-186
Data de publicação2007-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0167-2681 • E-ISSN: 1879-1751
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jebo.2005.03.009
OpenAlexW3125644582
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas38

We address the challenge of attempting to advance a strong and consistently subjectivist view of economic agency without simultaneously undermining the possibility of providing a coherent account of social institutions and socio-economic order. The argument is presented as a case study and development of the ideas of Ludwig Lachmann, a prominent and self-confessed 'radical subjectivist' member of the modern Austrian School, who was both aware of the challenge and sought to meet it. Two significant tensions are revealed in Lachmann's account, and it is shown how, drawing on recent contributions to realist social theory, these tensions may be resolved. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Austrian School · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Objectivism · Order (exchange · Positive economics · Sociology · Structure and agency · Subjectivism · Critical Realism in Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory