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Table of Contents
Titlepage
Epigraph
Imprint
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Progress and Poverty
Introductory
Epigraph
The Problem
Book
I
: Wages and Capital
Epigraph
I
: The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
II
: The Meaning of the Terms
III
: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor
IV
: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
V
: The Real Functions of Capital
Book
II
: Population and Subsistence
Epigraph
I
: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
II
: Inferences from Facts
III
: Inferences from Analogy
IV
: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
Book
III
: The Laws of Distribution
Epigraph
I
: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws
II
: Rent and the Law of Rent
III
: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
IV
: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
V
: The Law of Interest
VI
: Wages and the Law of Wages
VII
: The Correlation and Coordination of These Laws
VIII
: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
Book
IV
: Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
Epigraph
I
: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
II
: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
III
: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth
IV
: Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
Book
V
: The Problem Solved
Epigraph
I
: The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
II
: The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
Book
VI
: The Remedy
Epigraph
I
: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
I
: From Greater Economy in Government
II
: From the Diffusion of Education and Improved Habits of Industry and Thrift
III
: From Combinations of Workmen
IV
: From Cooperation
V
: From Governmental Direction and Interference
VI
: From a More General Distribution of Land
II
: The True Remedy
Book
VII
: Justice of the Remedy
Epigraph
I
: The Injustice of Private Property in Land
II
: The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
III
: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
IV
: Private Property in Land Historically Considered
V
: Of Property in Land in the United States
Book
VIII
: Application of the Remedy
Epigraph
I
: Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
II
: How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
III
: The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
I
: The Effect of Taxes Upon Production
II
: As to Ease and Cheapness of Collection
III
: As to Certainty
IV
: As to Equality
IV
: Endorsements and Objections
Book
IX
: Effects of the Remedy
Epigraph
I
: Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
II
: Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
III
: Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
IV
: Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
Book
X
: The Law of Human Progress
Epigraph
I
: The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
II
: Differences in Civilization—To What Due
III
: The Law of Human Progress
IV
: How Modern Civilization May Decline
V
: The Central Truth
Conclusion
Epigraph
The Problem of Individual Life
Endnotes
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