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Adorno, Theodor W.: Minima Moralia
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Beckwith, Christopher I.: Empires of the Silk Road
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Carlisle, Clare: The Marriage Question
Chapman, Stepan: Troika
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Hua, Yu: The Seventh Day
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Friedrich von Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, 1945 (*)
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