He was very interested in economics, and he wanted to understand how the social structures of capitalism and the economic structures of capitalism impinged upon the way personalities were formed.

其中，他对经济学又颇有研究，一直致力于解析,资本主义的社会结构,和经济架构如何改变一个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He's trying extremely hard to make an answer, and what he ends up doing is bringing that knowledge that he built up in Chicago, the knowledge that he gets from reading economics and sociology and Marxism.

他在里面倾其所学，让她明白,甚至用马克思主义,经济学和社会学中。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选