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The Fable of the Bees

2018-10-25 · 51 min · 8 entities

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    The Fable of the Bees Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) and his critique
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    The Fable of the Bees Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) and his critique
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    The Fable of the Bees Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) and his critique

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Episode description as stored
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) and his critique of the economy as he found it in London, where private vices were condemned without acknowledging their public benefit. In his poem The Grumbling Hive (1705), he presented an allegory in which the economy collapsed once knavish bees turned honest. When republished with a commentary, The Fable of the Bees was seen as a scandalous attack on Christian values and Mandeville was recommended for prosecution for his tendency to corrupt all morals. He kept writing, and his ideas went on to influence David Hume and Adam Smith, as well as Keynes and Hayek. With David Wootton Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York Helen Paul Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton And John Callanan Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London Producer: Simon Tillotson