蜜蜂的寓言
The fable of the bees
Bernard Mandeville · 初版 1723 年
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尽管从未遭禁，Bernard Mandeville 匿名出版的 The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Public Benefits 在 1723 年面世后不久，就被视作启蒙时代不道德的典型代表。作为对制约人类欲望的机制以及自利行为在客观上稳定社会的非预期结果的自然主义阐述，它后来被公认为 18 世纪最重要的社会理论著作之一。这一删节与现代化版本比以往任何文集都更聚焦于 Mandeville 的社会理论，
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……很棒——绝对是关于政府、金钱和社会的。《小即是美：把人当回事的经济学》。我第一次读它的时候，觉得地球还能不能存活下去全看大家读不读这本书了。我觉得曼德维尔的《蜜蜂的寓言》（The Fable of the Bees，1729年）极其搞笑，而且同样一针见血。万事万物是如何全维系于人类的罪恶之上的。如果我们全都有道德，经济体系就会崩溃等等。他极其详尽地论述了这个观点，而且你很难反驳他……
…Beautiful - definitely about government, money, society. Economics as if people mattered. When I first read this, I thought the survival of the planet depended on people reading it. I found Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1729) extremely funny and just as true. How everything depends on the sins of humanity. If we were all virtuous, economies would fall apart etc. Goes in detail into this argument and he's hard to argue…
要反驳这里对“过度与放纵”的批判，我推荐曼德维尔的《蜜蜂的寓言》（The Fable of the Bees，凯恩斯在《通论》中也引用过）。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees 我确实觉得，这类关于美德与恶行的辩论，很有必要放到当时的政治背景下去理解。……
For a rebuttal to the critiques of excess found here, I recommend Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees (which Keynes references in the General Theory). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees I do think it's worth contextualizing such debates about vice and virtue in the politics of the time.…
> 5. 自利在客观上造福所有人。或许也可以看看《蜜蜂的寓言》（The Fable of the Bees），它比斯密出生还早了几年出版：> 在《牢骚满腹的蜂巢》中，曼德维尔描述了一个欣欣向荣的蜜蜂社会，直到蜜蜂们决定遵循诚实与美德生活。随着它们……
> 5. Self-Interest Actually Helps Everyone See perhaps The Fable of the Bees as well, which was published a few years before Smith's birth: > In The Grumbling Hive, Mandeville describes a bee community that thrives until the bees decide to live by honesty and virtue. As they…
……补充：拉罗什富科的《箴言集》（Maxims）在揭露类作品书单里也该排在极前列——它是对自己极其残酷无情的揭露。拉布吕耶尔的《品格论》（Characters）温和一些，但有时对这个世界的揭露同样入木三分。《蜜蜂的寓言》（Fable of the Bees）也是如此……[0] http://metanoia-films.org/
…edit: Also La Rochefoucauld's Maxims should be very high on a list of exposés - it's a savage exposé of oneself. La Bruyere's Characters is a milder but still at-times-scathing exposé of the world. As is Fable of the Bees.. [0] http://metanoia-films.org/
可能是我看漏了，不过《蜜蜂的寓言》（The Fable of the Bees）是伯纳德·曼德维尔写的。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees 要想深入理解经济学史，我推荐的两本书是：Tomáš Sedláček 的《善恶经济学》（Economics of Good and Evil）https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Good-Evil-Economic-Gilgames...……
Maybe i overread it but The Fable of the Bees is from Bernard Mandeville. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees My two takes for a good historic understanding of economics are this Books: Economics of Good and Evil, Tomáš Sedláček https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Good-Evil-Economic-Gilgames...…
……精心制定的规则。这是不可避免的，所以为此抓狂没什么意义。为什么不把它引导到绝大部分积极正面的方向上呢？他可不是第一个这么想的。伯纳德·德·曼德维尔带着他的《蜜蜂的寓言》（The Fable of the Bees）早就走在他前面了。我觉得哈耶克的书读起来很受启发：http://chester.id.au/2012/12/07/review-the-essence-of-hayek-...
…carefully chosen rules. It's inevitable, so there's no much point getting upset about it. Why not turn it to largely positive ends? He wasn't first. Bernard de Mandeville was well ahead of him with The Fable of the Bees. I found Hayek enlightening to read: http://chester.id.au/2012/12/07/review-the-essence-of-hayek-...