(Paperback)
By: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9780140445411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 27th April 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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".
(Paperback)
By: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9780872203747
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Published anonymously in 1723, "The Fable of the Bees" by Bernard Mandeville came to be regarded as the epitome of immorality. It is a naturalistic account of the mechanism of human desire. This abridged edition also includes "The Fable" and background readings from two sources.
