The Invisible Order: Imagination, Nature and the Economic Sphere

Stefano Fiori ()
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Stefano Fiori: University of Torino

Chapter Chapter 7 in Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands, 2021, pp 135-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Some signs that Smith had revised models of knowledge based on the principle of visibility can be found in the History of Astronomy and the Theory of Moral Sentiments. The visible order is not simply an order that finally, without residues, becomes observable as a result of applying correct techniques and methods, but is the outcome of invisible forces that organize it. These topics are examined in this chapter, which explains how (1) the notion of scientific and moral imagination involves a cluster of conceptual metaphors, and how this leads to a revision of seventeenth-century ocular metaphor; and (2) visible and invisible dimensions interact in Smith’s economic analysis.

Keywords: Scientific imagination; Moral imagination; Division of labor; Prices; Productive labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85206-1_7

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