Name: The Fable of the Bees
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9780244448981

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Mandeville

Publisher

Lulu.com

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 0.2 cm

Weight

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9780244448981

Synopsis "The Fable of the Bees "

The Squashed edition of The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story. "Like reading the bible without all the begats" - Prof. Jim Curtis

Bernard Mandeville

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Bernard Mandeville (Rotterdam, November 15, 1670 – Hackney, January 21, 1733) was an influential Anglo-Dutch thinker: physician, satirist, moral philosopher, and proto-economist. He earned his medical degree in Leiden in 1691 and moved to England shortly thereafter, where he practiced as a specialist in nervous and digestive diseases, and became highly esteemed socially.

His most famous work, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714), includes the original poem The Grumbling Hive (1705) accompanied by philosophical essays on moral virtue, benevolence, and hypotheses of society.
In this satire, Mandeville presents the paradox: private vices—such as luxury, vanity, or lust—generate social benefits by boosting consumption and employment, while austere virtue detracts from wealth and economic dynamism.

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