Beyond the Invisible Hand

Kaushik Basu

Princeton University Press, 2016

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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

ISBN-13
9780691173696
ISBN-10
0691173699
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-08-02
Pages
296
Dimensions
237x156x23
Weight
474