The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714) is a book by the Anglo-Dutch social philosopher Bernard Mandeville. It consists of the...

Rotterdam, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for The Fable of the Bees. Mandeville was born...

linguistics, and the nature of free will.[citation needed] In her first independent work, the preface to her translation of the Fable of the Bees, du Châtelet...

The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 American drama film adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. Starring Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning...

the paradox of thrift holds that collective thrift may be bad for the economy. It had been stated as early as 1714 in The Fable of the Bees, and similar...

(Georgian, 1658–1725), author of The Book of Wisdom and Lies Bernard de Mandeville (English, 1670–1733), author of The Fable of the Bees John Gay (English, 1685–1732)...

with its current title, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits and included An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue. Mandeville...

The Bear and the Bees is a fable of North Italian origin that became popular in other countries between the 16th - 19th centuries. There it has often...

thought caused great controversy with the publication of Bernard Mandeville's influential work The Fable of the Bees in 1714, in which he argued that a country's...

Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of...