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Mackay’s famous historical survey examines episodes of collective enthusiasm, speculation and social contagion. The useful way to read it is not as a modern behavioral-science manual, but as a collection of cautionary stories about how crowds can reinforce beliefs and prices
Engels distinguishes between earlier “utopian” socialist projects and the form of socialist theory he and Marx advocated. It is short enough to read alongside a contrasting work, which makes it particularly useful for understanding the internal vocabulary of nineteenth-century socialist argument
The Manifesto is a political and economic argument about class conflict, capitalism and historical change. Its value for a beginner is partly comparative: reading it alongside Adam Smith exposes two very different ways of thinking about markets, property, labor and social order
Thomas Clarkson’s history of the British campaign against the African slave trade tells the story of abolition as a long political struggle rather than a sudden act of moral enlightenment. Clarkson describes the evidence gathered about the slave trade, the experiences of people who opposed it
Adam Smith develops a theory of moral judgment based on sympathy, the imagined perspective of others, self-command, propriety, virtue, and the social need for mutual approval
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