INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
Question
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John Locke
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Isaac Newton
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Adam Smith
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Voltaire
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Detailed explanation-1: -The invisible hand is a metaphor for the unseen forces that move the free market economy. Through individual self-interest and freedom of production and consumption, the best interest of society, as a whole, are fulfilled.
Detailed explanation-2: -invisible hand, metaphor, introduced by the 18th-century Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith, that characterizes the mechanisms through which beneficial social and economic outcomes may arise from the accumulated self-interested actions of individuals, none of whom intends to bring about such outcomes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, is often cited as arguing for the “invisible hand” and free markets: firms, in the pursuit of profits, are led, as if by an invisible hand, to do what is best for the world.