عنوان

Erasing the invisible hand :

شابک

0521517257

شابک

9780521517256

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Erasing the invisible hand :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

essays on an elusive and misused concept in economics /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Warren J. Samuels ; with the assistance of Marianne F. Johnson and William H. Perry

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxviii, 329 pages,

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Adam Smith's invisible hand and the Nobel prize in economic sciences; 2. The political economy of Adam Smith; 3. On the identities and functions attributed to the invisible hand; 4. Adam Smith's history of astronomy argument: how broadly does it apply? And where do propositions which 'sooth the imagination' come from?; 5. Conceptual and substantive issues and problems; 6. The invisible hand in an uncertain world with an uncertain language; 7. The invisible hand as knowledge; 8. The invisible hand and the economic role of government; 9. The survival requirement of Pareto optimality; 10. Conclusions and further insights

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on the economic role of government. The essays further show how Smith was silent as to his intended meaning, using the term to set minds at rest; how the claim that the invisible hand is the foundational concept of economics is repudiated by numerous leading economic theorists; that several dozen identities given the invisible hand renders the term ambiguous and inconclusive; that no such thing as an invisible hand exists; and that calling something an invisible hand adds nothing to knowledge. Finally, the essays show that the leading doctrines purporting to claim an invisible hand for the case for capitalism cannot invoke the term but that other nonnormative invisible hand processes are still useful tools"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Smith, Adam,1723-1790-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Capitalism

موضوع مستند نشده

Economics

موضوع مستند نشده

Free enterprise

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Samuels, Warren J.,1933-

تاريخ عمليات

20111109115551.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y