Progress and Poverty
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This classic is organized as follows:
Introductory: The Problem
Book I. Wages and Capital
Chapter I. The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
Chapter II. The Meaning of the Terms
Chapter III. Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor
Chapter IV. The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
Chapter V. The Real Functions of Capital
Book II. Population and Subsistence
Chapter I. The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
Chapter II. Inferences from Facts
Chapter III. Inferences from Analogy
Chapter IV. Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
Book III. The Laws of Distribution
Chapter I. The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—Necessary Relation of These Laws
Chapter II. Rent and the Law of Rent
Chapter III. Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
Chapter IV. Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
Chapter V. The Law of Interest
Chapter VI. Wages and the Law of Wages
Chapter VII. The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws
Chapter VIII. The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
Book IV. Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
Chapter I. The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
Chapter II. The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
Chapter III. The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth
Chapter IV. Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
Book V. The Problem Solved
Chapter I. The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
Chapter II. The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
Book VI. The Remedy
Chapter I. Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
Chapter II. The True Remedy
Book VII. Justice of the Remedy
Chapter I. The Injustice of Private Property in Land
Chapter II. The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
Chapter III. Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
Chapter IV. Property in Land Historically Considered
Chapter V. Of Property in Land in the United States
Book VIII. Application of the Remedy
Chapter I. Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
Chapter II. How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
Chapter III. The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
Chapter IV. Indorsements and Objections
Book IX. Effects of the Remedy
Chapter I. Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
Chapter II. Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
Chapter III. Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
Chapter IV. Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
Book X. The Law of Human Progress
Chapter I. The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
Chapter II. Differences in Civilization—To What Due
Chapter III. The Law of Human Progress
Chapter IV. How Modern Civilization May Decline
Chapter V. The Central Truth
Conclusion: The Problem of Individual Life
