CONTENTS.

Introductory.
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The Problem[3]
[Book I].—Wages and Capital.
ChapterI.—The current doctrine of wages—its insufficiency[17]
II.—The meaning of the terms[30]
III.—Wages not drawn from capital, but produced by the labor[49]
IV.—The maintenance of laborers not drawn from capital[70]
V.—The real functions of capital[79]
[Book II].—Population and Subsistence.
Chapter I.—The Malthusian theory, its genesis and support[91]
II.—Inferences from facts[103]
III.—Inferences from analogy[129]
IV.—Disproof of the Malthusian theory[140]
[Book III].—The Laws of Distribution.
Chapter I.—The inquiry narrowed to the laws of distribution—necessary relation of these laws[153]
II.—Rent and the law of rent[165]
III.—Interest and the cause of interest[173]
IV.—Of spurious capital and of profits often mistaken for interest[189]
V.—The law of interest[195]
VI.—Wages and the law of wages[204]
VII.—Correlation and co-ordination of these laws[217]
VIII.—The statics of the problem thus explained[219]
[Book IV].—Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth.
Chapter I.—The dynamics of the problem yet to seek[225]
II.—Effect of increase of population upon the distribution of wealth[228]
III.—Effect of improvements in the arts upon the distribution of wealth[242]
IV.—Effect of the expectation raised by material progress[253]
[Book V].—The Problem Solved.
Chapter I.—The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial depression[261]
II.—The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth[280]
[Book VI].—The Remedy.
Chapter I.—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated[297]
II.—The true remedy[326]
[Book VII].—Justice of the Remedy.
ChapterI.—Injustice of private property in land[331]
II.—Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land[345]
III.—Claim of land owners to compensation[356]
IV.—Property in land historically considered[366]
V.—Property in land in the United States[383]
[Book VIII].—Application of the Remedy.
ChapterI.—Private property in land inconsistent with the best use of land[395]
II.—How equal rights to the land may be asserted and secured[401]
III.—The proposition tried by the canons of taxation[406]
IV.—Indorsements and objections[420]
[Book IX].—Effects of the Remedy.
Chapter I.—Of the effect upon the production of wealth[431]
II.—Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon production[438]
III.—Of the effect upon individuals and classes[445]
IV.—Of the changes that would be wrought in social organization and social life[452]
[Book X].—The Law of Human Progress.
Chapter I.—The current theory of human progress—its insufficiency[473]
II.—Differences in civilization—to what due[487]
III.—The law of human progress[503]
IV.—How modern civilization may decline[524]
V.—The central truth[541]
[Conclusion].
The problem of individual life[553]