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The book has enlivened the study of economics for beginning students for more than 40 years. Adam ... Smith to a formulation of the laws of the market. What he sought was "the invisible hand ...

Adam Smith is generally considered to have coined the term invisible hand in two of his 18th-century books on philosophical and economic issues. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith uses the invisible ...