The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND Made famous by the Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, the concept of an ‘invisible hand’ might be taken to imply that

The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets.

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, know