# Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Bernard Mandeville v. Francis Hutcheson

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/self-interest-and-social-order-in-classical-liberalism-bernard-mandeville-v-francis-hutcheson>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** July 19, 2017

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George H. Smith discusses what Bernard Mandeville meant in saying that private vices produce public benefits, and how Francis Hutcheson criticized that theory.

George H. Smith discusses what Bernard Mandeville meant in saying that private vices produce public benefits, and how Francis Hutcheson criticized that theory.

[Originally published in essay form on January 23, 2015.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/self-interest-social-order-classical-liberalism-bernard-mandeville-v-francis-hutcheson)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._