Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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Podger, Andrew. "Book Review: Hidden Hand – Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World". The Conversation . Retrieved 1 December 2021.

The Japanese translation was published by Asuka Shinsha Publishing as Invisible Hand: How Is the Chinese Communist Party Reshaping the World? (見えない手 中国共産党は世界をどう作り変えるか; ISBN 9784864108010) on December 25, 2020. [5] Censorship attempts [ edit ] a b Meyer, Arline (March 1995). "Re-dressing classical statuary: The eighteenth-century 'Hand-in-Waistcoat' portrait". Art Bulletin. 77 (1): 45–63. doi: 10.2307/3046079. JSTOR 3046079. Smith may have come up with the two meanings of the phrase from Richard Cantillon who developed both economic applications in his model of the isolated estate. [7] Hidden Hand" redirects here. For the 2020 book, see Hidden Hand (book). The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (1812), exhibiting the hand-in-waistcoat gestureFire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend, and lighter substances fly upwards, by the necessity of their own nature; nor was the invisible hand of Jupiter ever apprehended to be employed in those matters. [24]

Without manuscripts, she shows, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased, and the remnants of their labours destroyed. Contrary to common misconceptions, Smith did not assert that all self-interested labour necessarily benefits society, or that all public goods are produced through self-interested labour. His proposal is merely that in a free market, people usually tend to produce goods desired by their neighbours. The tragedy of the commons is an example where self-interest tends to bring an unwanted result. Proponents of liberal economics, for example Deepak Lal, regularly claim that the invisible hand allows for market efficiency through its mechanism of acting as an indicator of what the market considers important, or valuable. [40] Understood as a metaphor [ edit ]

Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.

From the Cuthbert Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and preservation of these priceless objects.Adam Smith starts by presenting the principle of self-interest and advances the conclusion he will reach near the end of the chapter, namely that self-interest results in public welfare: So far Smith has argued that individuals act in their self-interest and that there is a preference for home-trade over foreign or carrying trade. Now, he adds that the capital employed in the home-trade necessarily boost the national industry, and increases employment and revenues for the inhabitants of the country to a larger degree than if it were employed outside; this also implies that there would be more resources for the provision of defense, [3] which serves everyone and is, as Smith puts it, "the first duty of the sovereign". [18] So not only is in the best interest of the individual to employ their capital in home-trade over the alternatives, but it is also the option most beneficial for society . It is in this way that the interest of the individual and his society align: Adam Smith then goes on explaining how this "mechanism" cannot be replaced by bureucratic commands: