caa a22 4500 445360224 CHVBK 20180317142913.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11138-011-0140-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11138-011-0140-x Chamlee-Wright Emily Department of Economics, Beloit College, 700 College St., 53511, Beloit, WI, USA aut Operationalizing the interpretive turn: Deploying qualitative methods toward an economics of meaning [Elektronische Daten] [Emily Chamlee-Wright] In his original essay advocating the interpretive turn in economics, Lavoie makes an explicit argument favoring (1) an economics of meaning and (2) the growth of knowledge through discursive rivalry within the scientific community. This paper contends that within Lavoie's explicit argument is an implicit case for a particular mode of discovery that resists the excesses of formalism common within the economics discipline and instead puts the investigator, the investigator's theoretical lens, and the subject under investigation in close proximity to one another. With the nodal points of this triangulated relationship in closer proximity to one another, an iterative learning process emerges that is itself a source of social scientific discovery. Further, and in connection to this mode of discovery, is the implicit case favoring qualitative research methods that correct the economics discipline's excessive reliance upon quantitative analysis in its empirical investigations that distances the investigator from the subject under investigation. The goal of this paper is to make these implicit arguments explicit. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Austrian economics nationallicence Interpretive economics nationallicence Qualitative methods nationallicence The Review of Austrian Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/2(2011-06-01), 157-170 0889-3047 24:2<157 2011 24 11138 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-011-0140-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-011-0140-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chamlee-Wright Emily Department of Economics, Beloit College, 700 College St., 53511, Beloit, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Review of Austrian Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/2(2011-06-01), 157-170 0889-3047 24:2<157 2011 24 11138 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer