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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy.</p> <p><strong><em>The Fable of the Bees</em></strong> 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).</p> <p>From that simple beginning, Mandeville saw that orderly social structures (such as law, language, the market, and even the growth of knowledge) were a spontaneous growth developing out of individual human actions.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Between Hobbes and Hume there is Mandeville. He is able to offer possibly the first systematically derived account of politics and social order based on 'interests, ' both rational and irrational. He elevated the individual and offered a new view of morality that contained the seeds for our contemporary understanding of human freedom and the good society."<br /><br /> Roger Michener, Princeton University<br>

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