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In Why We Bite the Invisible Hand, Peter Foster delves into a How can we at once live in a world of expanding technological wonders and unprecedented well-being, and yet hear a constant drumbeat of condemnation of the system that created it? That system, capitalism, which is based on private property and voluntary dealings, is guided by the Invisible Hand, the metaphor for economic markets associated with the great Eighteenth Century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. The hand guides people to serve others while pursuing their own interests, and produces a broader good that, as Smith put it, is no part of their intention. Critics. however, claim that the hand is tainted by greed, leads to inequity and dangerous corporate power, and threatens not merely resource depletion but planetary disaster. Foster probes misunderstanding, fear and dislike of capitalism from the dark satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution through to the murky concept of sustainable development. His journey takes him from Kirkcaldy, the town of Smiths birth, through Moscow McDonalds and Karl Marxs Manchester, on a trip to Cuba to smuggle dollars, and into the backrooms of the United Nations. His cast of charact

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Author

Foster, Peter, 1947-

Publisher

Toronto: Pleasaunce Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780992127626

Category

business

Subjects

Economics, Business

Rating

4.6 / 5 (82 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14