Emma Rothschild has argued this phrase was used by one man as an "ironic but useful joke," pointingto the first time that man uses it in his History o
Emma Rothschild has argued this phrase was used by one man as an "ironic but useful joke," pointingto the first time that man uses it in his History of Astronomy. Alfred Chandler referenced this object in a1977 work about the beginning of middle management in the U.S. This phrase's most famous popularizerfirst used it with its usual meaning in a story about a "proud and unfeeling landlord" who appears in his TheTheory of Moral Sentiments, and it also appears in that man's The Wealth of Nations. For 10 points, namethis metaphor for the unseen power of the market to allocate resources efficiently.
Emma Rothschild has argued this phrase was used by one man as an "ironic but useful joke," pointingto the first time that man uses it in his History of Astronomy.
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