The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (Penguin Classics) by Bernard Mandeville, edited by Phillip Harth
English | September 5, 1989 | ISBN: 0140445412 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 2 MB
English | September 5, 1989 | ISBN: 0140445412 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 2 MB
This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.