Beyond natural selection and divine intervention: The Lamarckian implication of Adam Smith's invisible hand

Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor (IH) is examined in light of two different accounts of the origin of traits: Charles Darwin's theory of evolutionary optimization and William Paley's theory of divine intervention. Smith's stand supersedes both accounts. For Smith, intermediating drives, such as the sexual one, neither arise accidentally and favored according to their fitness à la Darwin nor planted by the Deity à la Paley. For Smith, such drives are adopted in light of their ultimate end. Smith did not provide an account of how the drives are connected to their far-reaching, invisible beneficial ends or why do agents become dimly aware of that causality.     

The Road to Serfdom symposium.: Comment on papers by Rosser and by Levy, Peart, and Farrant

The paper reviews the history of the socialist calculation debate leading up to the publication of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, and then uses that information to address various claims made by Rosser and Levy, Peart, and Farrant in their symposium papers.