Far from a nihilistic crowd: The theoretical contribution of radical subjectivist Austrian economics

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-198

  Lewis, Paul ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergence; Emergence properties; Hermeneutics; Ludwig Lachmann; Nihilism; Social ontology; Social order

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955780956     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-011-0143-7     Document Type: Article

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