Jf. Pradeau, The cause of usefulness and stoicism in workmanship - Adam Smith's 'Theoryof moral sentiments', part 4, REV PHIL FR, 125(4), 2000, pp. 435-448
The fourth part of the Theory of Moral Sentiments is an important one: the
quoting of an "invisible hand" refers the moral enquiry to the propping of
the social prosperity which the Wealth of Nations takes as an object of stu
dy. But there's on thing more: one also finds evidence therein of the liber
al hypotheses according to which prosperity is never better reached but whe
n citizens do not pursue it consciously.