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Greed, as I put it in Wealth and Poverty, leads as by an invisible hand to an ever-growing welfare state to socialism.
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In this day and age leading people to trust in an invisible hand is like leading a people to jump a river like Jordan.
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After more than a century trying to prove the opposite, economic theorists investigating the matter finally concluded in the 1970s that there is no reason to believe markets are led, as if by an invisible hand, to an optimal equilibrium or any equilibrium at all.
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Politics, like the free markets of Adam Smith, tends to be guided by an "invisible hand": Countless individual decisions and actions together express a collective logic and even wisdom.
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Since UPS began shuttling parcels from Seattle department stores with a Model T Ford and a few motorcycles in the early 1900s, it has become an almost invisible hand in the U.S. economy (see chart).
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Jones and Piccard both said they felt they were guided by an "almost invisible hand" as they circumnavigated the globe.
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It might be with a gun, an army, a holy book, a law, an invisible free-market hand.
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Adam Smith suggested the invisible hand in an otherwise obscure passage in his Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776.
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In fact, disaster response provides an excellent example of how the invisible hand of the market works to alleviate suffering and bring quick relief to those in need.
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Now new research finds that this hand position creates an "invisible web" of water that gives swimmers more speed.
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