The Fable of the Bees
by Mandeville, BernardFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-12-01
Publisher(s): Liberty Fund
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Summary
It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). He was a great satirist and come to have a profound impact on economics, ethics and social philosophy. "The Fable of the Bees" begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices" (self-interest) lead to "publick benefits" (the development and operation of society).
Table of Contents
| Prefatory Note | vii | ||||
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xiii | ||||
| Introduction | xvii | ||||
| Life of Mandeville | xvii | ||||
| Early life in Holland | xvii | ||||
| Career in England | xix | ||||
| Writings | xxx | ||||
| History of the Text | xxxiii | ||||
| Mandeville's Thought | xxxviii | ||||
| The literary aspect | xxxviii | ||||
| Background for the mingling of criteria which produced the paradox of `Private Vices, Publick Benefits': the Deists, Renaissance scepticism, Pierre Bayle | xxxix | ||||
| Analysis of the paradox as embodied in the Fable | xlv | ||||
| Of the two contrary standards simultaneously adopted by Mandeville, which was his genuine attitude? | lii | ||||
| Mandeville's ethics: his apparent pyrrhonism, his basal utilitarianism | lvi | ||||
| Mandeville's psychology: man completely egoistic; the function of pride; human irrationality; the `invention' of virtue | lxi | ||||
| Certain misunderstood economic doctrines: the benefits of waste, his attitude towards charity-schools | lxvi | ||||
| Mandeville and Shaftesbury | lxxii | ||||
| Summary | lxxv | ||||
| The Background | lxxvii | ||||
| International character of the background | lxxvii | ||||
| Background for Mandeville's psychology (French): anti-rationalism | lxxviii | ||||
| anticipations of anti-rationalism | lxxxiv | ||||
| the basal egoism of man | lxxxvii | ||||
| the function of pride in moral action | xci | ||||
| Background for Mandeville's economics (English, French, and Dutch): defence of luxury | xciv | ||||
| the economic phase of Mandeville's paradox | xcviii | ||||
| defence of laissez-faire: general historical factors, literature, Mandeville's special contribution | xcviii | ||||
| Influence of individual predecessors: Bayle, La Rochefoucauld, Gassendi, Erasmus, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, &c. | ciii | ||||
| Mandeville's originality | cxi | ||||
| Mandeville's Influence | cxiv | ||||
| Vogue of the Fable | cxiv | ||||
| Literary influence | cxviii | ||||
| Influence on ethical thought: effect of Mandeville's paradox as a stimulus towards utilitarianism-the two groups influenced: the `rigoristic'-Law, Dennis, et al. | cxx | ||||
| and the non-rigoristic-Adam Smith, John Brown, &c. | cxxix | ||||
| effect of Mandeville's pyrrhonism on utilitarian theory | cxxxii | ||||
| effect of his individualism | cxxxiii | ||||
| Influence on economic theory: Adam Smith and the doctrine of `the division of labour' | cxxxiv | ||||
| the defence of luxury | cxxxv | ||||
| laissez-faire and Mandeville's philosophy of individualism | cxxxix | ||||
| Other influence by Mandeville | cxlii | ||||
| THE FABLE OF THE BEES. Part I | |||||
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3 | (14) | |||
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17 | (22) | |||
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39 | (2) | |||
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41 | (17) | |||
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58 | (195) | |||
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253 | (70) | |||
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323 | (48) | |||
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371 | (10) | |||
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