Mandeville’s Fable
Douglass, Robin![Mandeville’s Fable](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/419/41995932/CHSBZCOP0341995932.jpg)
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville's great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of ...