# Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Mandeville on the Benefits of Vice

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/self-interest-and-social-order-in-classical-liberalism-mandeville-on-the-benefits-of-vice>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** July 14, 2017

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George H. Smith discusses Bernard Mandeville’s defense of legal prostitution and other vices.

George H. Smith discusses Bernard Mandeville’s defense of legal prostitution and other vices.

[Originally published in essay form on January 16, 2015.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/self-interest-social-order-classical-liberalism-joseph-butler-continued)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._