The Invisible Hand - BBC's A History Of Ideas
Adam Smith used the metaphor of an ‘invisible hand’ to describe how individuals making self-interested decisions can collectively and unwittingly engineer an effective economic system that is in the public interest
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Examiner - GCE A Level - Business Studies (2016 Specification)
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- Classical economics
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Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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