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

Mandeville, Bernard

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9780140445411: The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits (Penguin Classics)

Synopsis

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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"Mandeville...anticipated Oscar Wilde in choosing his enemies with great care, and within his own century they included David Hume, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson. He could afford even such enemies because his friends and admirers have been legion."

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