The Fable of the Bees
by Bernard Mandeville
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Paperback / softback. New. 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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The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits was published in 1705 by Mandeville, philosopher, political economist and satirist. It begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues, and is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices" (self-interest) lead to "publick benefits" (the development and operation of society). From that simple beginning, Mandeville saw that orderly social structures (such as law, language, the market, and even the growth of knowledge) were a spontaneous growth developing out of individual human actions.
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- Title
- The Fable of the Bees
- Author
- Bernard Mandeville
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- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
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- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140445412
- ISBN 13
- 9780140445411
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1989-09-05
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