Bernard mandeville biography
| Western Philosophers Eighteenth-century philosophy (Modern Philosophy) | |
|---|---|
| Name: Bernard de Mandeville | |
| Birth: January 19, 1670 (Rotterdam in the Netherlands) | |
| Death: 1733 | |
| School/tradition: Classical economics | |
| Main interests | |
| Political philosophy, ethics, economics | |
| Notable ideas | |
| the unknowing cooperation of individuals, modern free market, division of labour | |
| Influences | Influenced |
| William Petty | Adam Smith |
Bernard de Mandeville (1670 – 1733), was a philosopher, political economist and satirist.
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Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote most of his works in English.
He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published as a 433-line poem in 1705; by the sixth edition of 1729 it had become a treatise. Mandeville depicted a hive full of bees, each going about its business in its own way, and suggested that vice and fraud were as much a part of their success as industry and virtue.
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