Skepticism and politics in the seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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wrote important articles on him, generating a Mandeville revival, especially since the 1920's. 2 The critical edition of The Fable of the Bees edited by Kaye and first published in 1924 remains a landmark of the initial phase of this revival. 3 In the second half of the twentieth century Mandeville's work and theories became the focus of special attention from economists and sociologists who proposed him as a forerunner of conceptions only developed much later. 4 1 For a concise and well-informed account of Mandeville's reception, with updated bibliography, see M.