an invisible hand

Gavin Kennedy

Chapter 12 in Adam Smith, 2008, pp 210-226 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Adam Smith did not credit ‘the invisible hand’ metaphor with the importance that many modern economists give to it, so what then did Adam Smith mean by this metaphor in contrast to what is attributed to him across the world today?

Keywords: Political Economy; Risk Aversion; Foreign Trade; Moral Philosopher; Invisible Hand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227545_13

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