It’s Adam Smith’s invisible hand, now doing its bit to save the planet. Kate Howitt is portfolio manager of the Fidelity Australian Opportunities Fund.

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Back in high school economics — or maybe in a foggy Econ 101 lecture hall — you probably heard about Adam Smith and his “invisible hand.” The idea was that ... game — or finally finish that book on ...

Alan Greenspan may trace the idea that markets fix themselves back to Adam Smith, but what would Smith himself say? Return to the documentary, Capitalism for the look at the moral philosophy of the ...

His explanation of the Invisible Hand reveals ... for the economy. Adam Smith explored the economic effects of self-interest and rational self-interest in his popular book, "An Inquiry into ...

But we would all be better off if Adam Smith had skipped the bit about “the invisible hand.” He meant little, if anything, by it—he used the term only once in the entire two volumes of The Wealth of ...

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The concept of the invisible hand is one of the many contributions of the legendary Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith. In his book The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote of a person who ...

It is a slim book, some of it ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.” Thus, Mr. Friedman explains, did Smith formulate what economists call the ...