The Fable of the Bees
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The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits is a book by the Anglo-Dutch social philosopher Bernard Mandeville. It consists of the satirical poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd H
The title page of the 1714 edition of Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
The Wealth of Nations
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, usually referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is a book by Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. Publ
Title-page of the 1776 London edition
Bust of Smith in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy
Edward Gibbon praised The Wealth of Nations.
Charles James Fox was the first person to mention The Wealth of Nations in Parliament.