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Beyond the Invisible Hand

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Beyond the Invisible Hand

By Kaushik Basu

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About the book

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 free-market orthodoxy. In Beyond the Invisible Hand, Kaushik Basu argues that mainstream economics and its conservative popularizers have misrepresent...Show more

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9780691173696

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

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Beyond the Invisible Hand

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