The "Invisible Hand" Refers to

question 50

Multiple Choice

The "invisible hand" refers to

• A)the marketplace guiding the self-interests of market participants into promoting general economic well-being.
• B)the fact that social planners sometimes have to intervene,even in perfectly competitive markets,to make those markets more efficient.
• C)the equality that results from market forces allocating the goods produced in the market.
• D)the automatic maximization of consumer surplus in free markets.

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