8. What difficulties would confront a socialist state in fixing wages? (Bullock, pages 696-705.)
9. What has been the effect of the Industrial Revolution upon the condition of the laboring classes? (Le Rossignol, pages 107-108.)
10. Explain why Marx's prediction of an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few has not come true. (Le Rossignol, pages 128-130.)
11. To what extent is socialism too pessimistic about the present order? (Le Rossignol, page 138.)
12. To what extent does socialism overestimate industrial evils? (Skelton, page 53.)
13. What service has been rendered by socialism? (Ely, page 638.)
14. What, according to Skelton, is the fundamental error of socialism? (Skelton, pages 60-61.)
TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
I
1. Make a list of a number of familiar commodities, and divide them into three classes for the purpose of testing the error of the labor theory of value, and the truth of the scarcity-utility theory. (Consult Section 159.)