one pin,
eighteen steps
alone: under 20 pins a day
specialised: about 48,000
The
pin
factory
the butcher
the brewer
the baker
we address, not their humanity
but their self-love
— Wealth of Nations, 1776
Dinner
from
self-interest
buyers
sellers
no one planned this order
each pursues his own gain — and the price brings them together
The
invisible
hand
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759 — on sympathy
self-interest was his engine,
never his virtue
Not
a
gospel
of
greed
Adam
Smith's
invisible
hand,
explained