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The Invisible Hand

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963352
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand written by Adam Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763697230
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Landscape with Invisible Hand written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem classic Earth culture (doo-wop music, still life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.

Invisible Hands

Author : Corinne
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1940450357
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Hands written by Corinne and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators — including phone manufacturers in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment workers in Bangladesh, and farmers around the world — reveal the secret history of the things we buy, including lives and communities devastated by low wages, environmental degradation, and political repression. Sweeping in scope and rich in detail, these stories capture the interconnectivity of all people struggling to support themselves and their families. Narrators include Kalpona, a leading Bangladeshi labor organizer who led her first strike at 15; Han, who, as a teenager, began assembling circuit boards for an international electronics company based in Seoul; Albert, a copper miner in Zambia who, during a wage protest, was shot by representatives of the Chinese-owned mining company that he worked for; and Sanjay, who grew up in the shadow of the Bhopal chemical disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history.

Invisible Hands

Author : Jonathan Sheehan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824047
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Hands written by Jonathan Sheehan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency. Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems—natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others—whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders, rooted in either divine providence or the mechanical operations of nature, began to fall away. In their place arose a new appreciation for the complexity of things, a new recognition of the world’s disorder and randomness, new doubts about simple relations of cause and effect—but with them also a new ability to imagine the world’s orders, whether natural or manmade, as self-organizing. If large systems are left to their own devices, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly came to believe, order will emerge on its own without any need for external design or direction. In Invisible Hands, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman trace the many appearances of the language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West. Across an array of domains, including religion, society, philosophy, science, politics, economy, and law, they show how and why this way of thinking came into the public view, then grew in prominence and arrived at the threshold of the nineteenth century in versatile, multifarious, and often surprising forms. Offering a new synthesis of intellectual and cultural developments, Invisible Hands is a landmark contribution to the history of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century culture.

The Invisible Hands

Author : Steven Drobny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118167414
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hands written by Steven Drobny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge fund managers who survived and profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes need to be made, and managers who actually made money during 2008 make for a logical starting place. The Invisible Hands provides investors and traders with the latest thinking from some of the best and the most successful players in money management, highlighting the specific risk and return objectives of each, and discussing the evolution of certain styles and beliefs in money management. Contains revealing interviews with top hedge fund managers who survived and prospered through the 2008 financial crisis Outlines investments and strategies for the rocky road ahead Reveals how hedge fund managers are seeking a new paradigm of risk management and profit making opportunities in the post-crisis world Gives guidance on how traditional investors such as pensions, endowments, foundations and family offices should rethink how they approach asset allocation and portfolio construction Page by page, the top macro thinkers found in this book reveal their own approaches to markets, risk, and the broader world in which we live, as well as their advice on how investors should be approaching money management in today's uncertain world.

The Invisible Hand?

Author : Bas van Bavel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191017671
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand? written by Bas van Bavel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them — the market economies — are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They rise, stagnate, and decline; and consist of very different combinations of institutions embedded in very different societies. These market economies create flexibility and high mobility in the exchange of land, labour, and capital, and initially they generate economic growth, although they also build on existing social structures, as well as existing exchange and allocation systems. The dynamism that results from the rise of factor markets leads to the rise of new market elites who accumulate land and capital, and use wage labour extensively to make their wealth profitable. In the long term, this creates social polarization and a decline of average welfare. As these new elites gradually translate their economic wealth into political leverage, it also creates institutional sclerosis, and finally makes these markets stagnate or decline again. This process is analysed across the three major, pre-industrial examples of successful market economies in western Eurasia: Iraq in the early Middle Ages, Italy in the high Middle Ages, and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, and then parallels drawn to England and the United States in the modern period. These areas successively saw a rapid rise of factor markets and the associated dynamism, followed by stagnation, which enables an in-depth investigation of the causes and results of this process.

Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands

Author : Stefano Fiori
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030852067
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands written by Stefano Fiori and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was Adam Smith’s intellectual laboratory? How did his economic theory take shape? Were his metaphors of order only residual and ornamental expressions? This book answers these questions by analyzing the formation of the concepts of market and social order in Adam Smith’s work, by considering various aspects of his approach. It analyzes how metaphors and pre-analytical concepts influenced Smith’s theory. In line with studies that deal with the cognitive role of metaphors in science, this book suggests that in Smith’s work metaphors provided a framework, on which basis the theory subsequently developed. Therefore, as such they were part of that intellectual process which made possible the formation of structured concepts. The content and scope of the book permits a more comprehensive interpretation of Smith’s thought, in which many aspects of his work are taken into consideration in order to explain a crucial problem for Smith: the nature and causes of social and economic order. The book also shows that in general, formation of theories is a complex process that includes pre-analytical views as non-residual parts of inquiry.

Race and the Invisible Hand

Author : Deirdre Royster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937376
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Race and the Invisible Hand written by Deirdre Royster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white peers? And if not, then why do black men trail white men in earnings and employment rates? Royster seeks an answer in the experiences of 25 black and 25 white men who graduated from the same vocational school and sought jobs in the same blue-collar labor market in the early 1990s. After seriously examining the educational performances, work ethics, and values of the black men for unique deficiencies, her study reveals the greatest difference between young black and white men—access to the kinds of contacts that really help in the job search and entry process.

Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

Author : Stephen F. Befort
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477126X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives written by Stephen F. Befort and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives develops a fresh, holistic framework to fundamentally reexamine U.S. workplace regulation. A new scorecard for workplace law and public policy that embraces equity and voice for employees and economic efficiency will reveals significant deficiencies in our current practices. To create one, the authors—a legal scholar and an economics and industrial relations scholar—blend their expertise to propose a comprehensive set of reforms, tackling such issues as regulatory enforcement, portable employee benefits, training programs, living wages, workplace safety and health, work-family balance, security and social safety nets, nondiscrimination, good-cause dismissal, balanced income distributions, free speech protections for employees, individual and collective workplace decision-making, and labor unions. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives is not just another book that sketches a reform agenda. The book provides the much-needed rubric for how we think about employment policy specifically, but also economic policy more generally. It is a must-read in these most critical times.

Beyond the Invisible Hand

Author : Kaushik Basu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836271
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Invisible Hand written by Kaushik Basu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiency One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of context, contorted, and used as the cornerstone of free-market orthodoxy. In Beyond the Invisible Hand, Kaushik Basu argues that mainstream economics and its conservative popularizers have misrepresented Smith's insight and hampered our understanding of how economies function, why some economies fail and some succeed, and what the nature and role of state intervention might be. Comparing this view of the invisible hand with the vision described by Kafka—in which individuals pursuing their atomistic interests, devoid of moral compunction, end up creating a world that is mean and miserable—Basu argues for collective action and the need to shift our focus from the efficient society to one that is also fair. Using analytic tools from mainstream economics, the book challenges some of the precepts and propositions of mainstream economics. It maintains that, by ignoring the role of culture and custom, traditional economics promotes the view that the current system is the only viable one, thereby serving the interests of those who do well by this system. Beyond the Invisible Hand challenges readers to fundamentally rethink the assumptions underlying modern economic thought and proves that a more equitable society is both possible and sustainable, and hence worth striving for. By scrutinizing Adam Smith's theory, this impassioned critique of contemporary mainstream economics debunks traditional beliefs regarding best economic practices, self-interest, and the social good.

The Invisible Hand

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316324507
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets. "[A] tense, provocative thriller about the unholy nexus of international terrorism and big bucks...." (Seattle Times). "Ahktar again turns hypersensitive subjects into thought-provoking and thoughtful drama" (Newsday). "The prime theme is pulsing and alive: when human lives become just one more commodity to be traded, blood eventually flows in the streets" (Financial Times). "Whip-smart and twisty" (Time Out New York), "The Invisible Hand offers genuine insight into the future of the West" (Village Voice).

The Invisible Hand

Author : John Eatwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349203130
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand written by John Eatwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on the theory of the invisible hand.

The Visible Hand

Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417682
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Visible Hand written by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

God's Invisible Hand

Author : Francis Cardinal Arinze
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149213X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book God's Invisible Hand written by Francis Cardinal Arinze and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal Arinze tells his amazing life story, and how he was guided by "God's invisible hand" through many challenging and dangerous moments, to become one of the world's leading Catholic prelates, and one of the top candidates for the Papacy in the recent conclave. In the style of an interview, Arinze responds to a host of wide ranging questions from journalist Gerard O'Connell. Arinze talks about his life and experiences growing up in Nigeria, becoming the world's youngest Bishop, being on the run during the Nigerian civil war, and as an outspoken Cardinal who led the way for inter-religious dialogue with non-Christian religions, particularly Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. The charismatic Cardinal, also tells about his years of working inside the Vatican under three different Popes, and of his close relationship with John Paul II. Arinze and John Paul worked together on various important projects and documents that have had an impact on the Church and the African culture.

Invisible Hands

Author : Stig Sæterbakken
Publisher : Norwegian Literature Series
ISBN 13 : 9781564788566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Hands written by Stig Sæterbakken and published by Norwegian Literature Series. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Kristian Wold is assigned to a year-old missing person's case. His superiors' instructions are clear: one last review before they shelve it. Nevertheless, when the mother of the 14-year-old missing girl asks to see him, his conscience gets the better of him and he agrees to a meeting; a meeting that has unforeseen consequences for both of them.

Ghost-Managed Medicine

Author : Sergio Sismondo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995527782
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Ghost-Managed Medicine written by Sergio Sismondo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invisible Hand in Economics

Author : N. Emrah Aydinonat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114273
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand in Economics written by N. Emrah Aydinonat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand. The author explores the unintended social consequences implied by the invisible hand and discusses the mechanisms that bring about these consequences. The book questions, examines and explicates the strengths and weaknesses of invisible-hand explanations concerning the emergence of institutions and macro-social structures, from a methodological and philosophical perspective. Aydinonat analyses paradigmatic examples of invisible-hand explanations such as Carl Menger’s ‘Origin of Money’ and Thomas Schelling’s famous checkerboard model of residential segregation in relation to contemporary models of emergence of money and segregation. Based on this analysis, he provides a fresh look at the philosophical literature on models and explanation and develops a philosophical framework for interpreting invisible-hand type of explanations in economics and elsewhere. Finally, the author applies this framework to recent game theoretic models of institutions and outlines the way in which they should be evaluated.