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MISES AND LACHMANN ON HUMAN ACTIONcerta<strong>in</strong> k<strong>in</strong>ds <strong>of</strong> action. This is someth<strong>in</strong>g very different from theway <strong>in</strong> which natural events are ‘determ<strong>in</strong>ed’ by their causes.(Lachmann 1971:25–6)14 This is the argument advanced by Gadamer (1979). To put thisargument <strong>in</strong> Lachmann’s terms: any act <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>terpretation makes usaware <strong>of</strong> elements <strong>of</strong> both our own ‘taken for grantedness’ <strong>and</strong> that <strong>of</strong>the author.15 Husserl encountered severe problems <strong>in</strong> attempt<strong>in</strong>g to reta<strong>in</strong> aCartesian subject <strong>and</strong> yet emphasise the importance <strong>of</strong> ‘the lifeworld’.If the notion <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>tersubjectivity is <strong>and</strong> the context <strong>of</strong> mean<strong>in</strong>g isfleshed out <strong>in</strong> either Wittgenste<strong>in</strong>ian or Heideggerian terms, then any‘subjectivism’ is seriously curtailed.ReferencesAlbrow, M. (1990) Max Weber’s Construction <strong>of</strong> Social Theory,Bas<strong>in</strong>gstoke: Macmillan.Bhaskar, R. (1979) The Possibility <strong>of</strong> Naturalism, Brighton: Harvester.Boettke, P.J. <strong>and</strong> Prychitko, D.L. (1994) ‘The future <strong>of</strong> Austrianeconomies’, <strong>in</strong> P.J.Boettke <strong>and</strong> D.L.Prychitko (eds) The MarketProcess:<strong>Essays</strong> <strong>in</strong> Contemporary Austrian <strong>Economic</strong>s , Aldershot: EdwardElgar.Br<strong>and</strong>, M. (1984) Intend<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Act<strong>in</strong>g: A Naturalized Action Theory,Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Bratman, M.E. (1985) ‘Davidson’s theory <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>tention’, <strong>in</strong> B.Vermazen <strong>and</strong>M.B.H<strong>in</strong>tikka (eds) <strong>Essays</strong> on Davidson: Actions <strong>and</strong> Events, Oxford:Clarendon Press.——(1987) Intention, Plans, <strong>and</strong> Practical Reason, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.Codd<strong>in</strong>gton, A. (1983) Keynesian <strong>Economic</strong>s: The Search for FirstPr<strong>in</strong>ciples, London: George Allen <strong>and</strong> Unw<strong>in</strong>.Davidson, D. (1980) <strong>Essays</strong> on Actions <strong>and</strong> Events, Oxford: ClarendonPress.Ebel<strong>in</strong>g, R.M. (1994) ‘Expectations <strong>and</strong> expectation formation <strong>in</strong> Mises’stheory <strong>of</strong> the market process’, <strong>in</strong> P.J.Boettke <strong>and</strong> D.L.Prychitko (eds)The Market Process: <strong>Essays</strong> <strong>in</strong> Contemporary Austrian <strong>Economic</strong>s,Aldershot: Edward Elgar.Gadamer, H.-G. (1979) Truth <strong>and</strong> Method, 2nd edn, London: Sheed <strong>and</strong>Ward.G<strong>in</strong>et, C. (1990) On Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Habermas, J. (1984) The Theory <strong>of</strong> Communicative Action: Volume 1:Reason <strong>and</strong> the Rationalization <strong>of</strong> Society, London: He<strong>in</strong>emann.Lachmann, L.M. (1971) The Legacy <strong>of</strong> Max Weber, Berkeley: GlendessaryPress.Lachmann, L.M. (1982) ‘<strong>Ludwig</strong> von Mises <strong>and</strong> the extension <strong>of</strong>subjectivism’, <strong>in</strong> I.M.Kirzner (ed.) Method, Process <strong>and</strong> Austrian<strong>Economic</strong>s: <strong>Essays</strong> <strong>in</strong> Honor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ludwig</strong> von Mises, Lex<strong>in</strong>gton, MA:Lex<strong>in</strong>gton Books.59

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