📚 Capitalism

Books with capitalism on their catalogue record, first published between 1700 and 2023, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject capitalism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 46,371 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei	Karl Marx	1848	459
	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	1867	189
	Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus	Max Weber	1700	137
	Imperializm, kak vysshai͡a︡ stadii͡a︡ kapitalizma	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	88
	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	1942	78
	The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism	George Bernard Shaw	1928	47
	Free to choose	Milton Friedman	1980	28
	Political Ideals	Bertrand Russell	1917	25
	The evolution of modern capitalism	John Atkinson Hobson	1894	23
	Le capital au XXIe siècle	Thomas Piketty	2013	20
	Monopoly Capital	Paul A. Baran	1966	14
	Bad Samaritans	Ha-Joon Chang	1998	14
	Caliban and the Witch	Silvia Federici	2004	14
	23 things they don't tell you about capitalism	Ha-Joon Chang	2010	11
	Techno-Feudalism	Yanis Varoufakis	2023	9
	The limits to capital	David Harvey	1982	8
	Capitalist Realism	Mark Fisher	2009	8
	Doing capitalism in the innovation economy	William H. Janeway	2012	8
	Talking to My Daughter About the Economy	Yanis Varoufakis	2017	7
	The Value of Everything	Mariana Mazzucato	2018	7
	Capitalism	James Fulcher	2004	6
	Kapitalismus und Todestrieb	Byung-Chul Han	2021	6
	The long twentieth century	Giovanni Arrighi	1994	5
	The Mystery of Capital	Hernando De Soto	2000	5
	Plutocrats	Chrystia Freeland	2012	5
	Learn to Earn	Peter Lynch	1995	4
	The origin of capitalism	Ellen Meiksins Wood	1999	4
	Understanding Marxism	Richard D. Wolff	2019	4
	Learn to earn	Peter Lynch	1996	3
	Capitalism	Anwar Shaikh	2016	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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