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Mandeville

I’ve started re-reading Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees for the chapter I’ll write next. The ‘Preface’ added to the 1714 edition (note: The Fable of the Bees is second only to the Bible in the history of books when it comes to convoluted history of writing and printing) contains what is possibly the best [...]