John J. Callanan

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century. In 1714, doctor, philosopher, and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their...