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Fable of the Bees

Bernard Mandeville

Length
21 h 27 min
Chapters
47
Language
English
First published
1806

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

Chapters

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