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| ISBN-13: | 9791041803385 |
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| Publisher: | Culturea |
| Publication date: | 03/22/2023 |
| Pages: | 632 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 1.40(d) |
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of "Progress And Poverty" 5
Preface to Fourth Edition 7
Introductory The Problem 10
Book I Wages and Capital 16
Chapter I The Current Doctrine of Wages-Its Insufficiency 16
Chapter II The Meaning of the Terms 21
Chapter III Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor 29
Chapter IV The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital 39
Chapter V The Real Functions of Capital 43
Book II Population and Subsistence 47
Chapter I The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support 47
Chapter II Inferences from Facts 52
Chapter III Inferences from Analogy 63
Chapter IV Disproof of the Malthusian Theory 68
Book III The Laws of Distribution 73
Chapter I The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution-Necessary Relation of These Laws 73
Chapter II Rent and the Law of Rent 78
Chapter III Of Interest and the Cause of Interest 82
Chapter IV Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest 89
Chapter V The Law of Interest 91
Chapter VI Wages and the Law of Wages 95
Chapter VII The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws 101
Chapter VIII The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained 102
Book IV Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth 105
Chapter I The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek 105
Chapter II The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth 106
Chapter III The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth 112
Chapter IV Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress 117
Book V The Problem Solved 121
Chapter I The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression 121
Chapter II The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth 129
Book VI The Remedy 137
Chapter I Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated 137
Chapter II The True Remedy 150
Book VII Justice of The Remedy 152
Chapter I The Injustice of Private Property in Land 152
Chapter II The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land 158
Chapter III Claim of Land Owners to Compensation 163
Chapter IV Property in Land Historically Considered 167
Chapter V Of Property in Land in the United States 174
Book VIII Application of the Remedy 180
Chapter I Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land 180
Chapter II How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured 182
Chapter III The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation 185
Chapter IV Indorsements and Objections 191
Book IX Effects of the Remedy 195
Chapter I Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth 195
Chapter II Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production 198
Chapter III Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes 201
Chapter IV Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life 204
Book X The Law of Human Progress 213
Chapter I The Current Theory of Human Progress-Its Insufficiency 213
Chapter II Differences in Civilisation-To What Due 219
Chapter III The Law of Human Progress 226
Chapter IV How Modern Civilization May Decline 235
Chapter V The Central Truth 243
Conclusion. The Problem of Individual Life 248