Mises Daily
Author:
Paul A. Cantor
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upset by anything that might disturb the regularity of their existence. In the opening pages of the novel, Griffin arrives in Iping as the quintessential stranger, collection of shops rather than a shop. Griffin’s invisibility gives him access to the full panoply of consumer goods capitalism produces. But Wells adds a invisible hand depends entirely on the visibility of businessmen as they meet in open competition. “Wells’s science-fiction parable fails to offer a fair test of Adam