Invisible hands

[Craig Clark]

David Andignac wrote:
 
> Finnally, isn't the Invisible Hand a famous business theory, concerning the
> > development of markets in the economy?

Murthy Yenamandara replied:
 
> Adam Smith's 'Wealth of the Nations' - each man acting in his own
> self-interest makes the market behave as if governed by a benevolent
> 'invisible hand'. Used by all and sundry to demonstrate that it is man's
> sacred duty to act only in his self-interest (mine it, clear it and move
> out west, where there is more) or else civilization would collapse.

...and _GR_ is quite clearly about how it's exactly this attitude 
that has brought civilisation to the brink of collapse...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"