The title of Ayad Akhtar's 2014 play, "The Invisible Hand," now in its Chicago premiere at the Steep Theatre, pays homage to Adam Smith. The great economist coined the metaphor in the middle of the 18th century as a way of explaining how individual self-interest, writ large, creates a checks-and-balances...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 02:50PM on October 13, 2017