Alan, I suggest you look at the "debate" within Austrian economics between Robert Nozick (who wrote an article on Austrian method) and Ludwig Lachmann (who choose to defend the Austrian method). Lachamm (like Donald Davidson) focused his response to Nozick's critique of Austrian method on the appropriate level of analysis and discusses how it all about "meaning". You can read about this in the Austrian Economics Newsletter (Vol. 1, #1, 1977). Pete Boettke