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Rafi Amir-ud-Din and Asad Zaman “Failures ofthe ‘Invisible Hand’” Forum for Social Economics Vol. 45, Iss. 1, 2016 pp 41-60. DOI:10.1080/07360932.2015.1019536 Pre-Publication Draft Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2293940 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2293940
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ABSTRACT
Despite many failures of the invisible hand both empirically and theoretically, it continues to be vigorously asserted and widely believed. We document the failures and explain why it continues to be asserted despite these failures.
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