Fable of the Bees, Volumes 1 & 2: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits - Softcover

Mandeville, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865970750 ISBN 13: 9780865970755

Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mandeville Bernard

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"Between Hobbes and Hume there is Mandeville. He is able to offer possibly the first systematically derived account of politics and social order based on 'interests, ' both rational and irrational. He elevated the individual and offered a new view of morality that contained the seeds for our contemporary understanding of human freedom and the good society."

Roger Michener, Princeton University

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Mandeville is the wittiest and shrewdest philosopher ever to make a significant impact upon economics. He 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.

— George J. Stigler, University of Chicago

It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy.

The Fable begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It 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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• Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0865970750
• ISBN 13: 9780865970755
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1074