Shawn Lawrence Otto...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.
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Adam Smith said: "The invisible hand seems confused and indecisive." The invisible hand is a symbol of mankind's innate ability to prosper and succeed. It was Adam Smith who said that the invisible hand guides human actions and that we can trust it to work for us. There is a problem though, as we become more and more consumed by ideology and rhetoric we lose our ability to apply the invisible hand. We use the invisible hand as an excuse for bad decisions and we toss away our moral compass.
Source: Fool Me Twice: Fighting The Assault On Science In America
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