Thanks for the article, Jason. However, if you would grant that cultural factors are also an example of a visible hand - Christmas retail comes to mind - then your premise that markets are somehow failing because of these visible hands seems weak. I mean, how could markets not fail under this rubric? I think markets succeed despite the factors you identify. That is the magic - that through a complex myriad of obstacles and inefficiencies, the market still presents the best, and most efficient outcome. That's just my initial response to reading your piece. Perhaps the silent, innumerable workings of the invisible hand eclipse the clumsy enumeration of all the visible hands - hands down!