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Fable of the Bees

by Bernard Mandeville

Chapter 1 of 48 Part I, Preface

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21 h 27 min
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English
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Matthew Muñoz

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Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the methodology of modern economics. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz