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Bernard de Mandeville  

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  • Bernard de Mandeville was an influential eighteenth-century political economist, social theorist, and satirist. Born in the Netherlands to a family of physicians, Mandeville attended the Erasmian school in Rotterdam and, in 1685, matriculated at the University of Leiden to study medicine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Mandeville, Bernard de (1670–1733)]

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