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My aim in this chapter is to stimulate and provoke. I have tried to raise some problems in the expectation that this may lead my discussant into offering some telling responses. In writing, I have presupposed a broad knowledge of the work of the subjectivist writers in the Austrian tradition. Not only are many good secondary accounts available, but there is no substitute for reading the works of the key figures themselves. I have also, and by conscious decision, written in an impressionistic manner, and I have not attempted to provide a full account of, or to engage with all of the — often important — secondary literature. To have done this would have been an interesting task, but it is not mine on the present occasion. Rather, my aim has been to tweak the tail of a venerable and mighty lion — in the hope that we may be both impressed and inspired by the resulting roar.
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Shearmur, J., Earl, P.E. (1992). Subjectivism, Explanation and the Austrian Tradition. In: Caldwell, B.J., Boehm, S. (eds) Austrian Economics: Tensions and New Directions. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2186-6_4
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