The Prince (Niccol Machiavelli)

Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)

Two Treatises on Government (John Locke)
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
Discourse on Inequality (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), AND On Social Contract
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
National System of Political Economy (Friedrich List)
Essay On Population (Thomas Malthus)
Principles of Political Economy (David Ricardo)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx), AND The Marx-Engels Reader (Karl
Marx & Friedrich Engels) OR Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
Theory of the Leisure Class (Thorstein Veblen)
Imperialism (John Hobson)
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Vladimir Lenin)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
The Worldly Philosophers (Richard Heilbroner)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (John Maynard

Keynes)
The Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci)
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Joseph Schumpeter)
The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi) *
The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
Imagined Communities (Benedict Arnold)
The Rise and Decline of Nations (Mancur Olson)
The End of History (Francis Fukuyama)

The Clash of Civilizations (Samuel Huntington)