The Invisible Hand - Adam Smith Explained

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One project has students map ten to fifteen nodes in a modern supply chain, an iPhone or a Tesla or a Netflix episode, tracing every specialized hand the way the pin factory example did with pins. A debate over the chain bakery undercutting Maya's prices asks when competition helps a town.

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