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The Basics of Capitalism
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

416 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction economics informative fast-paced
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Friedrich Engels

86 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

542 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Madeline Pendleton

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir self help hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

1104 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx

Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

Karl Marx

110 pages • first pub 1849 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore

328 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Lenin

132 pages • first pub 1917 (editions)

nonfiction politics dark slow-paced
Capital Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx

Capital Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

Capital #3

Karl Marx

1152 pages • first pub 1894 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Capital Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital by Karl Marx

Capital Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital

Capital #2

Karl Marx

624 pages • first pub 1885 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics informative slow-paced