The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand : Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory

Mittermaier, Karl

The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand : Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory - Bristol Bristol University Press 2020 - 1 electronic resource (278 p.)

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Using Adam Smith’s notion of an 'invisible hand', this extraordinary contribution identifies dogmatic versus pragmatic views of free markets. Published posthumously, with new contributions by Rod O’Donnell, Daniel B. Klein and Christopher Torr, this book outlines Mittermaier’s main thesis and its relevance for ongoing debates within economics, politics, sociology and philosophy.


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English

9781529209099 9781529209105


Economic theory & philosophy

Adam Smith free markets government intervention history of economic thought philosophy of economics