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Mandeville's Fable : pride, hypocrisy, and sociability /

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher? Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglass, Robin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Mandeville, Bernard, > 1670-1733. > Fable of the bees.
Ethics > Early works to 1800.
Conscience > Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life > Early works to 1800.
Sociology > Great Britain > History.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.

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