Capital, Volume I

Karl Marx1867book

Selected reading: Selected discussions of value, labour and price.

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How to study this source

  • What gives something value?

    coreSelected discussions of value, labour and price

    Keep commodity, value, labour and observed price distinct while tracing the selected argument.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

  • Principles of Economics

    Carl Menger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • The Use of Knowledge in Society

    Friedrich Hayek. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Value and Capital

    John Hicks. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Microeconomic Theory

    Mas-Colell, Whinston · Green. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Misbehaving

    Richard Thaler. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.