Machine generated contents note: 1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1 -- 2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39 -- 3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61 -- 4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of...

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences -- 1.1. The Research Protocols of Economics, the Ironies That Result from Them, and Other Preliminaries -- 1.2. Adam Smith and Some Nobel...