Friedrich Engels
1820 – 1895 · Germany · Political Economy, History
The Condition of the Working Class in England founded empirical labour economics.
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- Karl Marx
1818 – 1883 · Political Economy, Philosophy
Their collaboration produced the Manifesto and the edition of Capital after Marx's death.
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