here’s a list of 50 books to understand the principles, values, and goals of the Workers First Party:

1. “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
2. “Das Kapital” by Karl Marx
3. “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek
4. “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” by John Maynard Keynes
5. “The Conscience of a Conservative” by Barry Goldwater
6. “A Theory of Justice” by John Rawls
7. “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
8. “The End of History and the Last Man” by Francis Fukuyama
9. “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein
10. “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
11. “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith
12. “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
13. “The Theory of Communicative Action” by Jürgen Habermas
14. “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” by Robert Nozick
15. “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
16. “The Road to Wigan Pier” by George Orwell
17. “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin
18. “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries
19. “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell
20. “The Human Condition” by Hannah Arendt
21. “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” by Adam Smith
22. “The Dynamics of Political Communication” by Richard M. Perloff
23. “The Antifederalist Papers” edited by Ralph Ketcham
24. “The Federalist Papers” by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
25. “The End of Poverty” by Jeffrey D. Sachs
26. “The Theory of Economic Development” by Joseph A. Schumpeter
27. “The Ideas of Karl Marx” by Alan Ryan
28. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S. Kuhn
29. “The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis” by Graham T. Allison
30. “The Capitalist Manifesto” by Andrew Bernstein
31. “The Public and Its Problems” by John Dewey
32. “The Social Contract” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
33. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli
34. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu
35. “The Governance of China” by Xi Jinping
36. “The Rise and Fall of Nations” by Ruchir Sharma
37. “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David S. Landes
38. “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton
39. “A History of Economic Theory and Method” by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hébert
40. “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism” by Richard D. Wolff
41. “The Communist Hypothesis” by Alain Badiou
42. “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff
43. “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty
44. “The Great Transformation” by Karl Polanyi
45. “The Open Society and Its Enemies” by Karl Popper
46. “The Coming of Post-Industrial Society” by Daniel Bell
47. “The Political Economy of Human Happiness” by Benjamin Radcliff
48. “The Theory of Political Coalitions” by William H. Riker
49. “The End of Work” by Jeremy Rifkin
50. “Democracy and Political Theory” by C.B. Macpherson

This list focuses on essential works in political and economic theory, which are relevant to the Workers First Party’s ideology and mission.