Search results for ""Author Bernard Mandeville""
Liberty Fund Inc Fable of the Bees, Volumes 1 & 2: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits
£19.95
Georg Olms Verlag AG Collected Works: Volume III -- The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. Enlarged with many additions
£118.79
Penguin Books Ltd The Fable of the Bees
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.
£12.99
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings: Publick Benefits'
This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates--particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity--and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. The selections are substantive enough to faithfully represent Mandeville the social theorist, and compact enough to be used in courses that can afford to spend no more than a week on his work.
£15.99
