Political Science Economic Policy
Grumbling Hive Revisited
Private Greed, Public Need
- Publisher
- Bunim & Bannigan
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2015
- Category
- Economic Policy
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781933480121
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
- List Price
- $8.99
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In the original Grumbling Hive, dishonesty and vice created employment and wealth, inspiring Adam Smith, whose idealization of markets is a template for today’s unbridled capitalism. In Mandeville Sr.’s fable, a turn to honesty by his bees ( miniature Europeans) ruins the economy. In Mandeville Jr.’s fable, bees as they are, a community based on mutual support and selfless care, are ruined by the adoption of unbridled capitalism.