Invisible hand
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title:
Invisible hand
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The invisible hand is a metaphor inspired by the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith that describes the incentives which free markets sometimes create for self-interested people to act unintentionally in the public interest. Smith originally mentioned the term in two specific, but different, economic examples. It is used once in his Theory of Moral Sentiments when discussing a hypothetical example of wealth being concentrated in the hands of one person, who wastes his wealth, but thereby emplo
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Concept in economics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
date created:
2003-09-01T01:24:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T13:51:18Z
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