Isn't it the case that the one use of the invisible hand in Smith's
Wealth of Nations refers to how individuals looking out for
themselves are led, as if by an invisible hand, to engage in acts
that aid the aggregate?
If so, then Pat is expanding the scope of 'invisible hand' (which
might be OK, but it seems to run to risk of turning it into
everything, or everything non-governmental. [Indeed, maybe in the
eyes of many, it is.])
Peter G. Stillman