If there is such a thing as the "invisible hand", I would think it's the aggressiveness of evil as compared to virtue. Good people do not aggressively seek out the ruin of people nor create systems of exclusion.
In climate change we have used the term "operationalizing" the response - that is to build upon best practices and to aggressively put them into practice. However, the motivation for building peaceful systems lacks heart. At least in the public eye and mainstream aspect of communication.
Even if you are Christian, it may be difficult to recognize the difficulty the Church had in creating a system of belief that balances all aspects of a heavy handed economic system. It's not a system directly opposed to a monetary system but if anything - using words of theology - "it fulfills the system”. The system itself is not necessarily corrupt but for the outcomes to be balanced there needs to be yet another "invisible hand."
In this case it was not a government but an Aboriginal tribal belief system that included a social structure based on ritual and strong supporting verbal and written practices. The new "rituals" resulting from the life and death of Christ was three fold: forgiveness of sins, acts of grace, and a completed since of salvation.
There IS a reason why economics is so structured around dept and profit: because the vision of the "New Jerusalem" is based on a pure Christian structure of the Church's theology of debt, forgiveness and grace. If there was ever a social balance to the metaphysics of money (economics) it would have to be the historical Christian concept of "Grace" and the invisible hand of its benefits.
Grace in Christianity
In Western Christian theology grace has been defined, not as a created substance of any kind, but as "the love and mercy given to us By God because God desires us to have it, not because of anything we have done to earn it", "the condescension or benevolence shown by God toward the human race". It is understood by Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to people "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" – that takes the form of divine favor, love, clemency, and a share in the divine life of God. - Wikipedia
The total nemesis of money and personal profit.
What made early Christianity a powerful balancing force is that a system of grace was defined and still exists in the Catholic faith - it recognizes suffering and the grace accumulated by its members and saint's. The Church itself acts as the system and dispenses "grace" through its actions as well as it's ceremonies. What the original Protestant reformer's protested was the Church's use of Indulgence's.
Indulgence
...an indulgence is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins which may reduce either or both of the penance required after a sin has been forgiven, or after death, the temporal punishment, in the state or process of purification called Purgatory. - Wikipedia
In the history of the Church the dept of sin was managed through ritual practices and by dispensing "grace". In the practice of forgiving the dept of sin it was an action that was managed through the ritual practices of the Church but also as an individual practice in its social teachings and example. Most of the time this context is considered "salvation" and it's somewhat muddled by history.
"In recent times, the Church has recognized that its teaching about the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation has been widely misunderstood, so it has "re-formulated" this teaching in a positive way. Here is how the Catechism of the Catholic Church begins to address this topic: "How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Reformulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body" (CCC 846).
In keeping with the Church’s current spirit of ecumenism, this positive reformulation comes across less harshly than previous negative formulations. Even so, it remains quite controversial. So, let’s see how this new formulation squares with Scripture." - http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/what-no-salvation-outside-the-church-means
- Christ is the head of the Church.
- The church is his body.
- Grace is dispensed through the body.
- God does not condemn anyone.
- Grace comes from the acts of Christ.
Although many argue that access to grace is limited by the theology the opposite is true - everyone has access but not everyone "drinks this water." What I would tell you is this - find the well that contains this water and drink it daily - never stop. Offer it to everyone you meet including your enemies. While you may not have the means to give everyone you meet money - Grace is Free because it comes from God. Or if your an atheist - it comes from the very foundation of life itself and is totally a human in devoir.
