By Jonathan Sheehan,Dror Wahrman
In Invisible Hands, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman hint the numerous appearances of the language of self-organization within the eighteenth-century West. throughout an array of domain names, together with faith, society, philosophy, technology, politics, financial system, and legislation, they exhibit how and why this fashion of pondering got here into the general public view, then grew in prominence and arrived on the threshold of the 19th century in flexible, multifarious, and infrequently staggering kinds. supplying a brand new synthesis of highbrow and cultural advancements, Invisible Hands is a landmark contribution to the heritage of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century culture.
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