{
  "id": "invisible-hand.unintended",
  "term": "invisible hand",
  "sense": "unintended",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "economics",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a collective outcome that persists inside a window not because any part chose it, but because the interaction of parts maintains a state that no single part models",
  "folk_gloss": "a way that things work out without anyone planning it",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "interaction.process",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "model.representation",
      "window.range",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective outcome nobody chose"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "invisible hand"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — collective outcome nobody chose"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-invisible-hand.unintended"
}