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Invisible Heart is a lively novel which mainly consists of debates. The book takes a close look at business and economics using two main characters named Sam Gordon and Laura Silver who teach at the exclusive Edwards high school in Washington, D.C .Sam strongly believes in capitalism, believes that government intervention is harmful, believes that humanity flourishes under economic freedom; freedom for people to make choices on their own even though it might not favor them and usually makes references to Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations and The theory of moral sentiments while on the other hand Laura Silver believes the intervention of the government is needed for some things to work out for people. In the first chapter of the book Sam Gordon who is usually considered as a weird person
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He is the CEO of Health Net. The woman walks into a Washington government office building and opens a door stenciled ‘office of corporate responsibility, Erica Baldwin’. Charles is having a conversation with the director of research where he tells him that a big problem has been encountered. ‘The clinical tests for the new prostrate drug are not going well. I’m worried it affects the entire corporation’. A meeting is taking place in Erica’s office on a Monday morning, as usual, the meeting begins with the a review of the previous week’s calls to the corporate responsibility’s hot line to lay complaints about corporate misbehavior. The corporate responsibility is currently carrying out an investigation about health net. They believe health net is a career criminal. They have different arguments on how to take down the company and they finally come to a conclusion to wait till they have enough evidence to take them down completely. Erica Baldwin is so determined to take down health net and no one could stop her. Not even Charles Krauss could resist her withstanding efforts to take him

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