Introduction to “A Genealogy of Self-interest in Economics”

D. Wade Hands ()

A chapter in A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics, 2021, pp 1-7 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It can be argued that economics has always been concerned with self-interest. The most quoted passage from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations has been his remarks about the invisible hand: a good social result that emerges from self-interested behavior.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-9395-6_1

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