The Fable of the Bees

ISBN-13: 9780140445411 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 416 str.

Bernard Mandeville; Phillip Harth

Opis

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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