The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Using Adam Smith’s notion of an 'invisible hand', this extraordinary contribution identifies dogmatic versus pragmatic views of free markets. Published posthumously, with new contributions by Rod O’Donnell, Daniel B. Klein and Christopher Torr, this book outlines Mittermaier’s main thesis and its relevance for ongoing debates within economics, politics, sociology and philosophy.

Karl Mittermaier (1938-2016) was affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for over thirty years until his retirement in 1998.