Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands : Metaphors of Order and Economic Theory in Adam Smith

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Machines, Bodies, and Invisible Hands -- Chapter 2. Metaphors as conceptual tools -- Chapter 3. The metaphor of the machine -- Chapter 4. Smith and the organic metaphors -- Chapter 5. The invisible hand -- Part 2. Visible and Invisible Orders: The Secrets of Organization -- Chapter 6. Paradigms of Order in the Seventeenth Century: Intelligibility as Visibility -- Chapter 7. The Invisible Order: Imagination, Nature, and the Economic Sphere -- Chapter 8. Organization and Invisible Forces in the Life Sciences of the Late Eighteenth Century -- Part 3. Forms and Experiences of Time -- Chapter 9. Time and Social Order -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.