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# **Get the free eBook, *The History of Socialism and Capitalism ***

This two-in-one eBook from Hoover Institution senior fellows Niall Ferguson and Victor Davis Hanson explores the history of socialism and capitalism.

In this eBook, you will read Niall Ferguson’s *Capitalism, Socialism, and Nationalism: Lessons from History* as well as Victor Davis Hanson’s *Our Socialist Future*.

These papers were written in conjunction with *The Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism*.

The goal of this project is to provide objective and scholarly analyses of free-market capitalism, socialism, and hybrid systems and to provide evidence on the effectiveness of the various systems on outcomes that affect prosperity and well-being.

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