| Introductory. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| The Problem | 3 | |
| Book I.—Wages and Capital. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The current doctrine of wages—its insufficiency | 17 |
| II.—The meaning of the terms | 30 | |
| III.—Wages not drawn from capital, but produced by the labor | 49 | |
| IV.—The maintenance of laborers not drawn from capital | 70 | |
| V.—The real functions of capital | 79 | |
| Book II.—Population and Subsistence. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The Malthusian theory, its genesis and support | 91 |
| II.—Inferences from facts | 103 | |
| III.—Inferences from analogy | 129 | |
| IV.—Disproof of the Malthusian theory | 140 | |
| Book III.—The Laws of Distribution. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The inquiry narrowed to the laws of distribution—necessary relation of these laws | 153 |
| II.—Rent and the law of rent | 165 | |
| III.—Interest and the cause of interest | 173 | |
| IV.—Of spurious capital and of profits often mistaken for interest | 189 | |
| V.—The law of interest | 195 | |
| VI.—Wages and the law of wages | 204 | |
| VII.—Correlation and co-ordination of these laws | 217 | |
| VIII.—The statics of the problem thus explained | 219 | |
| Book IV.—Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The dynamics of the problem yet to seek | 225 |
| II.—Effect of increase of population upon the distribution of wealth | 228 | |
| III.—Effect of improvements in the arts upon the distribution of wealth | 242 | |
| IV.—Effect of the expectation raised by material progress | 253 | |
| Book V.—The Problem Solved. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial depression | 261 |
| II.—The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth | 280 | |
| Book VI.—The Remedy. | ||
| Chapter | I.—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated | 297 |
| II.—The true remedy | 326 | |
| Book VII.—Justice of the Remedy. | ||
| Chapter | I.—Injustice of private property in land | 331 |
| II.—Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land | 345 | |
| III.—Claim of land owners to compensation | 356 | |
| IV.—Property in land historically considered | 366 | |
| V.—Property in land in the United States | 383 | |
| Book VIII.—Application of the Remedy. | ||
| Chapter | I.—Private property in land inconsistent with the best use of land | 395 |
| II.—How equal rights to the land may be asserted and secured | 401 | |
| III.—The proposition tried by the canons of taxation | 406 | |
| IV.—Indorsements and objections | 420 | |
| Book IX.—Effects of the Remedy. | ||
| Chapter | I.—Of the effect upon the production of wealth | 431 |
| II.—Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon production | 438 | |
| III.—Of the effect upon individuals and classes | 445 | |
| IV.—Of the changes that would be wrought in social organization and social life | 452 | |
| Book X.—The Law of Human Progress. | ||
| Chapter | I.—The current theory of human progress—its insufficiency | 473 |
| II.—Differences in civilization—to what due | 487 | |
| III.—The law of human progress | 503 | |
| IV.—How modern civilization may decline | 524 | |
| V.—The central truth | 541 | |
| Conclusion. | ||
| The problem of individual life | 553 | |