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MISES AND LACHMANN ON HUMAN ACTIONWhenever one is in doubt about the meaning of a passage onetries to establish what the author ‘meant by it’, i.e. to whatideas he attempted to give expression when he wrote it…. It isevidently possible to extend this classical method ofscholarship to human acts other than writings.(Lachmann 1971:10)Lachmann’s explorations of the understanding of meaning thus beara strong psychological imprint—it is a matter of discovering whatlies in the mind of the other. However, as Gadamer notes,psychological understandings of the act of interpretation‘presuppose that only a mind on the same level can understandanother mind’ (Gadamer 1979:466). Lachmann’s account ofunderstanding meaning has unfortunate consequences for hisunderstanding of the relevance of plans.Lachmann wants to continue what he identifies as the Austriantradition’s emphasis on subjectivism. Consequently, according toLachmann, even given the same ‘objective’ situation, differentindividuals will respond differently because they regard thesituation with ‘different eyes’ (1971:11). In line with the possibilityof incorporating future intentions within his analysis, Lachmanngives this observation a temporal slant: any attempt to understandhuman action must take account of differences in perceptions of thefuture, and thus ‘to understand it (human action) we have tounderstand what image of the future the actors are bearing in theirminds’ (ibid.).However, in fleshing out this observation about the relevance ofimages in terms of plans, Lachmann also acknowledges that planscan only be formulated in the context of what he terms‘institutions’:Human action in society is interaction. Each plan must takeaccount of, among many other facts, favourable andunfavourable, the plans of other actors. But these cannot beknown to the planner. Institutions serve as orientation mapsconcerning future actions of the anonymous mass of actors.(Lachmann 1971:12–13)However, if institutions serve as ‘orientation maps’, then unless anyindividual is conscious, at the time of formulating plans, of thecomplete institutional context within which these plans areformulated, then the meaning of action cannot be deduced solely53
STEPHEN D.PARSONSfrom the contents of consciousness. Lachmann’s problem heresurfaces in an ambiguity concerning the notion of ‘orientation’. Inthe above, institutions serve as ‘orientation maps’ which,presumably, must be taken account of by any individual whenformulating a plan. However, Lachmann also argues that:‘Orientation entails plan. A plan has to contain a comprehensiveaccount of ends, means, and obstacles to which a course of action isorientated’ (ibid.: 38).This appears to suggest that orientation is only possible through,and because of, the formation of a plan. ‘Planning’ thus allowsorientation to ends, means and obstacles to occur:What we may hope to accomplish here is to be able to show towhat ends, means, and obstacles human action is orientated.Orientation thus emerges as a concept as fundamental topraxeological study as determinateness to natural science.(ibid.: 37)However, if a plan provides a form of horizon that enables anorientation to means, ends and obstacles, how do we first becomeaware of, and thus orientate ourselves towards, certain possibleends, means, and obstacles? Lachmann appears to neglect theconsideration of the context within which plans are formulated.Again, this can be contrasted to Weber:Weber differentiates the concept of practical rationality fromthe three perspectives of employing means, setting ends, andbeing orientated to values. The instrumental rationality of anaction is measured by effective planning of the application ofmeans for given ends; the rationality of choice of an action ismeasured by the correctness of the calculation of ends in thelight of precisely conceived values, available means, andboundary conditions; and the normative rationality of anaction is measured by the unifying, systematizing power andpenetration of the value standards and the principles thatunderlie action preferences.(Habermas 1984:172)It is some understanding of what is here referred to as the‘orientation to values’ that appears missing from Lachmann’saccount. Consequently, a hiatus between the individual actor andthe institutional context within which plans are formulated appears.54
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CONTENTSNotes 57References 594 Lach
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1INTRODUCTIONRoger Koppl and Gary M
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ENDOGENOUS CHANGEIntroductionAmong
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RADICAL SUBJECTIVISMeconomic theory
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INDEXaction: individual 32-3, 38-9,
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