Brewer, Anthony - In: History of Political Economy 41 (2009) 3, pp. 519-543
The invisible hand as it appears in the Theory of Moral Sentiments is commonly treated as an afterthought in … because they address different questions. The argument in the Theory of Moral Sentiments allowed Smith to maintain an ironic … entirely coherent (if not entirely plausible) economic argument underpinning the invisible hand of the Theory of Moral …