The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Mandeville, Bernard

 
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This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.

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Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)

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A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".

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ISBN 10:  0865970769 ISBN 13:  9780865970762
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 1988
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