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Friedrich Engels' classic summary of the scientific foundations of socialism, tracing the materialist conception of history and the development of capitalist society.
Norman Angell's influential argument that war between major powers had become economically futile, a key text in peace studies and international relations.
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Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political econ
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