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Re: SHOE: QUERY--Visual treatments of the invisible hand
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Luigino Bruni <[log in to unmask]>
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Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:17:40 -0400
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I would like to add that the use of the image of the "hand" in order
to express the market mechanism is in Ferdinando Galiani (1751). More
in general, as underlined by Hirschman (1977), the concept of
invisible hand in order to express the mechanism of unintended
consequences of intentional actions is in Vico (1744).

Luigino Bruni

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