...vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species. When Providence divided the earth among a few lordly masters, it neither...

...Approbation," in which Smith presents his famous metaphor of the invisible hand, he writes, "They [the rich] are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...advance the interest of the society, and afford means of the multiplication of the species" (TMS, 185). Eidous's translation is awkward and imprecise: "Une...

...Beauty."56 Explaining the unintended consequences of the actions of the wealthy, Smith writes: They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...it, advance the interest of the society, and afford the means to the multiplication of the species. When Providence divided the earth among a few lordly...

...produce of all their improvements. And here, finally, there enters the invisible hand: They [the rich] are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...without knowing it, advance the interest of the society. . . . When Providence divided the earth among a few lordly masters, it neither forgot nor abandoned...

...desires," but nevertheless must "divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements," because "they are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants."11 And why is this true? Only because there are market laws that supposedly compel this...

...In Moral Sentiments he writes further on: [the rich] are led by an invisible hand (emphasis added) to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries...portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without knowing it, advance the interests of society. Here we have the idea of unintended consequences clearly...

...vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...would have been made had the earth been divided into portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the...

...improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make the same distribution of the necessarities of life, which would have been made, had the earth...divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants ( Herman: 208). Looking at the billions living on less than $1 per day, emaciated and dying, one can...

...vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessities of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among...

...vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same...the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species. When providence divided the earth among a few lordly masters, it neither...