Marxism

Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, volume 1, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press, 2024. ISBN 9780691190075 or 9780691240473.

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, first edition. Harvard University Press, 2014 or 2017. ISBN 9780674430006 or 9780674979857.

Marx, Capital I: chapters 1–2; chapter 4.1–4.3; chapter 6; chapter 7.1; chapter 21.

Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (1834), 12-page Course Reserve excerpt.

Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century: selected passages from introduction and chapters 1, 3, 5 and 7.

Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry Reconsidered” (1963), Course Reserve reading.