The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits (Penguin Classics) - Softcover
This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140445412
- ISBN 13 9780140445411
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- Number of pages416
- EditorHarth Phillip
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