Capital (Das Kapital)
“Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.” From the concepts of commodities and money, surplus-value of labor, the accumulation of capital and its process of circulation, to the conversion of surplus value into profit and transformation of surplus-profit into ground rent, Karl Marx’s Capital presents his theory of the capitalist system. Regarded as a significant work of the modern economic thought.