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“Entities such as #society, the #economy and #climate are everywhere and nowhere. They are the product of many #factors and must be observed indirectly via #proxies. There’s a reason Adam Smith’s ‘ #invisiblehand’ was invisible.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Everywhere a... -
“Entities such as #society, the #economy and #climate are everywhere and nowhere. They are the product of many #factors and must be observed indirectly via #proxies. There’s a reason Adam Smith’s ‘ #invisiblehand’ was invisible.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Everywhere a... -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/ #fossielesubsidies #marktwerking #FossilLobby #invisiblehand #renewables #autonomie
“Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas, renewables outperformed on every front: halving costs, creating 50,000 jobs, and protecting the economy from price shocks”. -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/ #fossielesubsidies #marktwerking #FossilLobby #invisiblehand #renewables #autonomie
“Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas, renewables outperformed on every front: halving costs, creating 50,000 jobs, and protecting the economy from price shocks”. -
⬆️ @zeitgeisty
>> #Fed corrects our faults that #US #Economy cannot correct.
The #InvisibleHand needs visible intervention to fight #greed and #corruption.
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Here is something I wrote:
Time to read: ±15 minutes
https://pen.waltuh.cyou/autumn/the-paradox-of-ownership-in-the-digital-age
> The Paradox of Ownership in the Digital Age:
How DMCA and DRM Limit Access and Undermine Preservation Efforts---
#dmca #drm #copyright #ownership #piracy #copyleft #fairuse #economics #invisibleHand #solutions #civilDisobedience #archive #library #preservation #publicDomain #art #writing #research #digitalRights -
Here is something I wrote:
Time to read: ±15 minutes
https://pen.waltuh.cyou/autumn/the-paradox-of-ownership-in-the-digital-age
> The Paradox of Ownership in the Digital Age:
How DMCA and DRM Limit Access and Undermine Preservation Efforts---
#dmca #drm #copyright #ownership #piracy #copyleft #fairuse #economics #invisibleHand #solutions #civilDisobedience #archive #library #preservation #publicDomain #art #writing #research #digitalRights -
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“Adam Smith Is Misinterpreted And His Influence Overstated”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/adam-smith-is-misinterpreted-and-his-influence-overstated or https://archive.is/hQpRa).
#Economics #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #AdamSmith #TheWealthOfNations #Legacy #Books #InvisibleHand
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“Adam Smith Is Misinterpreted And His Influence Overstated”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/adam-smith-is-misinterpreted-and-his-influence-overstated or https://archive.is/hQpRa).
#Economics #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #AdamSmith #TheWealthOfNations #Legacy #Books #InvisibleHand
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I’ll take Adam Smith s #invisiblehand any day over this fatfingered meddling.
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I’ll take Adam Smith s #invisiblehand any day over this fatfingered meddling.
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*Explain to me how that's different from the behavior of the stock market. #invisiblehand #neverbeenhuman #universallyworshipped
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mtm4yjoqpp2p6sfyu3ft7ipn/post/3lzxedew25k2n -
It's because the stock market is not the collective wisdom of sober economic evaluation that it is hyped to be.
Someone - I forget who - described it memorably, and far more accurately, as "the stock market is a mood ring for how rich people feel about the economy that day".
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It's because the stock market is not the collective wisdom of sober economic evaluation that it is hyped to be.
Someone - I forget who - described it memorably, and far more accurately, as "the stock market is a mood ring for how rich people feel about the economy that day".
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Adam Smith was a great economist. But the invisible hand theory needs a government that is paying attention, not one that is being paid to look the other way.
South Australia is looking like a greater and greater state to live in, or at least model!
Bring on more states that act this way - now illegal to accept any political donations!
#politics #moneyinpolitics #economics #invisiblehand -
Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/texts
#askMastodon #askMathstodon #math #maths #mathematics #adamSmith #Cicero #Shewart #Deming #Wiener #Shannon #ERP #ADHD
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Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/texts
#askMastodon #askMathstodon #math #maths #mathematics #adamSmith #Cicero #Shewart #Deming #Wiener #Shannon #ERP #ADHD
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Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/
#HackerNews #DesignPressure #InvisibleHand #CodeQuality #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringInsights
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Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/
#HackerNews #DesignPressure #InvisibleHand #CodeQuality #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringInsights
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Schwarz-Rot - Welche Wirtschaftspolitik ist notwendig?
sehr lustig: Frau aus der Wirtschaft wünscht sich weniger Ideologie, aber meint man müsse EINFACH an die KRaft der Wirtschaft haben und weniger MIßtrauen gegen Unternehmen - für mich ist dieses bedenekn wegwishen genau das, was Ideologie ausmacht. Sowas wie #InvisibleHand Ich bin eher dafür kritisch zu schauen, was Sache ist.
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⬆️ @vij
The benevolent #InvisibleHand only works as advertised when people make perfectly rational choices with perfect knowledge amid perfect competition, or when visible governments force corrective measures.
Seems like #ElonMusk is trying to discredit visible government to usher in an #invisibleGovernment, which his grandpa tried to discredit. Hardly any progress in generations.
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#UnsichtbareHand #InvisibleHand
"die unsichtbare Hand wird Adam Smith zugeschrieben, kommt aber bei ihm genau einmal vor in The Wealth of Nations." Vorher nur einmal, und da ist sie Sinnbild für die Gier des Landbesitzers. Voller Abscheu für die kapitalistische Instanz. Wurde erst in den 50er/60er Jahren, mit Friedman etc. anders verwendet, so wie wir das heute kennen. --> Buchtipp "Adam Smith's Amercia" -
When I say "live with their heads up their asses", I'm referring to the small pond of these morons who just vacuum up the shit pouring out of each other's asses, or the crap peddled them by grifters appealing to their weird fixations on #AynRand, the "#InvisibleHand", "#accelerationalism", immortality, and the other psychic props popular with the moronic #techbros rich and the 4th generation legacy #oligarchs they worship as mentors.
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When I say "live with their heads up their asses", I'm referring to the small pond of these morons who just vacuum up the shit pouring out of each other's asses, or the crap peddled them by grifters appealing to their weird fixations on #AynRand, the "#InvisibleHand", "#accelerationalism", immortality, and the other psychic props popular with the moronic #techbros rich and the 4th generation legacy #oligarchs they worship as mentors.
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...M. Buchanan, along with politicians and policy-makers such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan...[all US/UK]
"Das Kapital" was written in England (London), too, after Marx was exiled in 1849.
Another key philosopher, #AdamSmith (Wealth of Nations, "the #InvisibleHand") was a Scot.
Much of global economic theory is being strongly influenced by US thinktanks like the #FederalistSociety, etc.
I could have written "Anglo-American," but merely...
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...M. Buchanan, along with politicians and policy-makers such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan...[all US/UK]
"Das Kapital" was written in England (London), too, after Marx was exiled in 1849.
Another key philosopher, #AdamSmith (Wealth of Nations, "the #InvisibleHand") was a Scot.
Much of global economic theory is being strongly influenced by US thinktanks like the #FederalistSociety, etc.
I could have written "Anglo-American," but merely...
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I was planning a post on Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" theory, then something better came along - my little squirrel friend outside of my office window.
Somehow, this post is more satisfying. Or maybe, a new definition.
The invisible hand refers to the the invisible force that brings life to equilibrium through levels of openness and serendipity for a curious and welcoming individual.
#Squirrel #SquirrelsOfMastodon #photography #AdamSmith #InvisibleHand #serendipity
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I was planning a post on Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" theory, then something better came along - my little squirrel friend outside of my office window.
Somehow, this post is more satisfying. Or maybe, a new definition.
The invisible hand refers to the the invisible force that brings life to equilibrium through levels of openness and serendipity for a curious and welcoming individual.
#Squirrel #SquirrelsOfMastodon #photography #AdamSmith #InvisibleHand #serendipity
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“Sometimes, I feel like the rules been changed
Sometimes, I feel like a ghost in chains” -
“Sometimes, I feel like the rules been changed
Sometimes, I feel like a ghost in chains” -
@energiepirat
Ah, #AdamSmith und die #InvisibleHand--feuchte Träume für #Elmo, wenn er ihn verstehen würde. 🤣 -
@energiepirat
Ah, #AdamSmith und die #InvisibleHand--feuchte Träume für #Elmo, wenn er ihn verstehen würde. 🤣 -
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They say that it's *impossible* for good regulations to exist, and therefore the only regulation that is even *possible* is to let businesses do whatever they want and wait for the #InvisibleHand to sweep away the bad companies. Rather than creating hand-washing rules for restaurant kitchens, we should let restaurateurs decide whether it's economically rational to make us shit ourselves to death.
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CW: Long thread/20
They say that it's *impossible* for good regulations to exist, and therefore the only regulation that is even *possible* is to let businesses do whatever they want and wait for the #InvisibleHand to sweep away the bad companies. Rather than creating hand-washing rules for restaurant kitchens, we should let restaurateurs decide whether it's economically rational to make us shit ourselves to death.
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CW: Long thread/5
So plutocrats need to find ways to get turkeys to vote for Christmas. One important trick is to convince us all that the system is fair, guided by an #InvisibleHand that performs mystic passes over our heads at birth and locates the very best of us and elevates us to the apex of the social pyramid.
But there's a problem with this: plutocracy is self-sustaining.
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CW: Long thread/5
So plutocrats need to find ways to get turkeys to vote for Christmas. One important trick is to convince us all that the system is fair, guided by an #InvisibleHand that performs mystic passes over our heads at birth and locates the very best of us and elevates us to the apex of the social pyramid.
But there's a problem with this: plutocracy is self-sustaining.
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@Npars01 "until it makes no financial sense". 👈 This!
It is almost as if the political power to shape financial incentives is the modern(ized) form of oppression. "#InvisibleFist" one could say & see a continuation of the more visible violence of old.
On a less serious level, working through the bureaucratic hurdles of installing one's own solarpanels, reveals the same type of structural discrimination/disincentives against progressive solutions.
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@Npars01 "until it makes no financial sense". 👈 This!
It is almost as if the political power to shape financial incentives is the modern(ized) form of oppression. "#InvisibleFist" one could say & see a continuation of the more visible violence of old.
On a less serious level, working through the bureaucratic hurdles of installing one's own solarpanels, reveals the same type of structural discrimination/disincentives against progressive solutions.
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.> In his book on globalization, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Friedman says, and I quote, “The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas…and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.” Perhaps this was written in a moment of vulnerability, but it’s certainly the most succinct, accurate description of the project of corporate globalization that I have read.
#ArundhatiRoy in her speech #ComeSeptember quotes #ThomasFriedman on the #InvisibleHand with #HiddenFist about which he may haver written in a "moment of vulnerability." Maybe E.K. Hunt's "Invisible Foot" caught him a good one that day and he slipped, blurted out a clearer way of seeing #CorporateGlobalization, #FreeMarkets, #NeoLiberalEconomics....
- https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september -
.> In his book on globalization, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Friedman says, and I quote, “The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas…and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.” Perhaps this was written in a moment of vulnerability, but it’s certainly the most succinct, accurate description of the project of corporate globalization that I have read.
#ArundhatiRoy in her speech #ComeSeptember quotes #ThomasFriedman on the #InvisibleHand with #HiddenFist about which he may haver written in a "moment of vulnerability." Maybe E.K. Hunt's "Invisible Foot" caught him a good one that day and he slipped, blurted out a clearer way of seeing #CorporateGlobalization, #FreeMarkets, #NeoLiberalEconomics....
- https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september -
What is it with #InvisibleHand today?
Here’s a mini-rant on how #AdamSmith is victim of Orwellian doublespeak -
What is it with #InvisibleHand today?
Here’s a mini-rant on how #AdamSmith is victim of Orwellian doublespeak -
Your post contains a common misrepresentation of #AdamSmith #InvisibleHand.
Smith was not advocating for greed.
He argued that monopolies are bad, and consumers needed options, choice.
"Invisible hand" as economic concept is modern. And formal disifo..
(1) JSTOR 1994
"Smith did not particularly esteem the invisible hand and thought of it as an ironic but useful joke"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117851(2) ScienceDirect 2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1477388020300323 -
Your post contains a common misrepresentation of #AdamSmith #InvisibleHand.
Smith was not advocating for greed.
He argued that monopolies are bad, and consumers needed options, choice.
"Invisible hand" as economic concept is modern. And formal disifo..
(1) JSTOR 1994
"Smith did not particularly esteem the invisible hand and thought of it as an ironic but useful joke"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117851(2) ScienceDirect 2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1477388020300323
