Of the division of labour / Adam Smith
Absolute and relative surplus value / Karl Marx
Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber
Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
Winner-take-all markets / Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook
Inequality / Christopher Jencks [and others]
What money can't buy : family income and children's life chances / Susan Mayer
Being black, living in the red : race, wealth, and social policy in America / Dalton Conley
Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the black middle class / Mary Pattillo-McCoy
Ain't no making it : aspirations and attainment in a low-income neighborhood / Jay MacLeod
From Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
Miser and the spendthrift / Georg Simmel
Very rich / C. Wright Mills
Bobos in paradise : the new upper class and how they got there / David Brooks
Case of Pullman, Illinois / Michael Walzer
Code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
Sidewalk sleeping and crack bingeing / Mitchell Duneier
Whores, slaves, and stallions : languages of exploitation and accommodation among prizefighters / Loïc Wacquant
In the shadow of the poorhouse : a social history of welfare in America / Michael Katz
Hidden agenda / William Julius Wilson
Stakeholder society / Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott
Black economic progress in the era of mass imprisonment / Bruce Western, Becky Pettit, and Josh Guetzkow.
