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Why Is the "Invisible Hand" in the Middle of Smith’s Works?

Coincidence or subtle statement?

MARCH 09, 2011 by MARK SKOUSEN

To think that Adam Smith, the renowned absent-minded professor, hid a little "invisible" secret in his tomes is indeed the ultimate irony.

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Consumer Spending Doesn’t Drive the Economy

Investment does.

MAY 17, 2010 by MARK SKOUSEN

The truth is that consumer spending does not account for 70 percent of economic activity and is not the mainstay of the U. S. economy.

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From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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