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Bernard Mandeville was born on November 15, 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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economist philosopher satirist
Bernard Mandeville was born on November 15, 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Bernard Mandeville was educated there at the Erasmian School and, at the age of 15, matriculated at the University of Leiden.
In 1705 Bernard Mandeville published a poem, The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest, which appeared in 1714 as The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits.
They had been prosperous while wicked, but poor when they reformed.
Mandeville assumed, for the purpose of his satire, the traditional concept that self-interest was a vice, and virtue was self-denial.
In this he anticipated later laissez-faire economic theory.
His work was read by Adam Smith and other economists.
He stated such ideas as that the vice of luxury in the rich benefited the poor by providing employment for them.
( This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinen...)
( This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire s...)
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