Hegel and Political Economy

To understand Hegel’s thought we need to recognize concepts he used explicitly or implicitly. Political economy as a science that he himself was looking at its inflorescence is an area that he profit from its achievements and also developed his ideas in light of it. The end of this paper is to show that how we can compare Hegel’s historical studies and the concept of ‘the cunning of reason’ with the methods of economics and some of its elements like ‘the invisible hand’: or how the presupposition of free act of individuals relate to a key concept in Hegel; ‘subjectivity’. Also we discuss about the relation between state’s economical duties in Hegel’s thought and the foundations of political economy، and finally about this that on the basis of Hegel’s thought to some extent we can defense free market.