262. Why do profits tend to fall as population increases, and how may this result be retarded or prevented?
263. What is the effect of a general rise of money wages, apart from the consideration of a greater efficiency of labor, in prices, profits, and rent? Give reasons for your answer.
264. How does the general progress of society in wealth and industrial efficiency tend to affect the rate of wages, the rate of profit, and the rate of rent, respectively?
265. What is the general effect of the progress of society on the land-owner, the capitalist, and the laborer?
Future of Laboring-Classes.
266. Examine the influences of machinery on the economic condition of the working-classes.
267. Mention and discuss some of the popular remedies for low wages, and especially the effect of the subdivision of landed property among peasant proprietors.
268. Explain briefly what is meant by co-operation, and indicate the more prominent forms assumed by the co-operative movement.
269. What is meant by the co-operative system of industry? Show ways in which this system may affect, for good or for evil, the productiveness of labor; and mention any moral benefits, or the opposite, in which it may be expected to issue.
270. What are the difficulties in the way of co-operation for the production of salable objects?