Capital (Das Capital)

" Money is the alienated essence of man' s labour and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it." From the concepts of commodities and money, surplus-value of labour, 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, this magnum opus is a