A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1
by Karl Marx
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Noam Chomsky and Elon Musk
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Abridged but still dense, this edition mixes scene‑setting historical description of mid‑Victorian industry with sustained, often combative economic argument. Its practical value lies in vocabulary and close readings of how wages, commodities, and production were organized — material that fuels seminar debate and close citation. The main limitation is prose packed with technical digressions and extended sentences that sap forward motion; readers who want crisp, modern explanations or policy prescriptions will likely find it frustrating rather than clarifying.
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A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of midVictorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentiethcentury social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. This is the only abridged edition to take...
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