Gavin Kennedy has carefully shown that the “Invisible Hand” myth, that greedy and selfish private optimizing behavior leads to a social macro optimum that benefits all, had nothing to do with Adam Smith's use of the invisible hand metaphor in The Wealth of Nations. Kennedy also showed that...

In contrast to recent interest in the effects of student-driven collaborations on learning outcomes, little or no previous empirical investigations have examined the potential benefits from collaboration between instructors of separate but related courses. This study explicitly accounts for...