NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits(1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption. What then happened?
发自纽黑文——荷兰出生的英国哲学家兼讽刺作家伯纳德·曼德维尔在其1724年出版的经典名著《蜜蜂的寓言：私人的恶德，公众的利益》中用一首长诗来描述一个原本繁荣，却突然选择以节俭为美，放弃一切额外支出和奢侈消费的（蜜蜂）社会，诗文如下：