The Fable of the Bees
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Publishing Details
The Fable of the Bees
By (Author) Bernard Mandeville
By (author) Phillip Harth
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
1st October 2007
27th April 1989
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
823.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
303g
Description
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville 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. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the fullest defences of his early paradox that social benefit is the unintended consequence of personal vice. It is an argument that is generally held to lie behind Adam Smith's doctrine of the 'hidden hand' of economic development.
Author Bio
Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)
