《PROGRESS AND POVERTY》

Preface1

The Problem7

BOOKⅠ WAGES AND CAPITAL15

Ⅰ. The Current Doctrine-its Insufficiency15

Ⅱ. The meaning of the Terms24

Ⅲ. Wages not drawn from Capital, but produced by Labour38

Ⅳ. The maintenance of Labourers not drawn from Capital53

Ⅴ. The real Functions of Capital60

BOOKⅡ POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE67

Ⅰ. The Maithusian Theory. its Genesis and Support67

Ⅱ. Inferences from Fact75

Ⅲ. Inferences from Analogy94

Ⅳ. Disproof of the Malthusian Theory102

BOOKⅢ THE LAWS OF DISTRIBUTION110

Ⅰ. The Inquiry narrowed to Laws of Distribution-the necessaryRelation of these Laws110

Ⅱ. Rent and the Law of Rent119

Ⅲ. Of Interest and the cause of Interest124

Ⅳ. Of spurious Capital and Profits often mistaken for Interest136

Ⅴ. The Law of Interest141

Ⅵ. Wages and the Law of Wages147

Ⅶ. Corrc:ation and Co-ordination of these Laws157

Ⅷ. The Statics of the Problem thus explained158

BOOKⅣ EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROGRESS UPON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH162

Ⅰ. The Dynamics of the Problem yet to seek162

Ⅱ. Effect of Increase of Population upon the Distribution of Wealth164

Ⅲ. Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth174

Ⅳ. Effect of the Expectation raised by Material Progress182

BOOKⅤ THE PROBLEM SOLVED187

Ⅰ. The Primary Cause of recurring Paroxysms of Industrial De-pression187

Ⅱ. The Persistence of Poverty amid advancing wean201

BOOKⅥ THE REMEDY212

Ⅰ. Insufficiency of Remedies currently advocated212

Ⅱ. The true Remedy233

BOOKⅦ JUSTICE OF THE REMEDY236

Ⅰ. Injustice of Private Proverty in Land．236

Ⅱ. Enslavement of Labourers the ultimate Resuit of Private Pro-perty in Land246

Ⅲ. Claim of Land Owners to Compensation254

Ⅳ. Property in Land historically considered261

Ⅴ. Property in Land in the United States274

BOOKⅧ APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY282

Ⅰ. Private Pronerty in Land inconsistent with the best Use of Land282

Ⅱ. How equal Rights to the Land may be asserted and secured286

Ⅲ. The Proposition tried by the Canons of Taxation290

Ⅳ. Indorsements and Objections299

BOOKⅨ EFFECTS OF THE REMEDY306

Ⅰ. Of the Effect upon the Production of Wealth306

Ⅱ. Of the Effect upon Distribution and thence upon Proauctlon311

Ⅲ. Ot the Effect upon Individuals and Classes316

Ⅳ. Of the Changes that would be wrought in Social Organisationand Social Life321

BOOKⅩ THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS335

Ⅰ. The Current Theory of Human Progress--its Insufficiency335

Ⅱ. Differences in Civilisation-to what due345

Ⅲ. The Law of Human Progress357

Ⅳ. How mouern Civilisation may decline373

Ⅴ. The central Truth385

The Problem of Individual Life393

INDEX401