Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II / An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth Papyras Classics

Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II / An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

by Henry George

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Preface to Fourth Edition
  3. Introductory
  4. Book I. Wages and Capital
  5. Chapter I. The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
  6. Chapter II. The Meaning of the Terms
  7. Chapter III. Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor
  8. Chapter IV. The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
  9. Chapter V. The Real Functions of Capital
  10. Book II. Population and Subsistence
  11. Chapter I. The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
  12. Chapter II. Inferences from Facts
  13. Chapter III. Inferences from Analogy
  14. Chapter IV. Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
  15. Book III. The Laws of Distribution
  16. Chapter I. The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws
  17. Chapter II. Rent and the Law of Rent
  18. Chapter III. Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
  19. Chapter IV. Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
  20. Chapter V. The Law of Interest
  21. Chapter VI. Wages and the Law of Wages
  22. Chapter VII. The Correlation and Co-Ordination of These Laws
  23. Chapter VIII. The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
  24. Book IV. Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
  25. Chapter I. The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
  26. Chapter II. The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
  27. Chapter III. The Effect of Improvements in the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth
  28. Chapter IV. Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
  29. Book V. The Problem Solved
  30. Chapter I. The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
  31. Chapter II. The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
  32. Book VI. The Remedy
  33. Chapter I. Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
  34. Chapter II. The True Remedy
  35. Book VII. Justice of the Remedy
  36. Chapter I. The Injustice of Private Property in Land
  37. Chapter II. The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
  38. Chapter III. Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
  39. Chapter IV. Private Property in Land Historically Considered
  40. Chapter V. Of Property in Land in the United States
  41. Book VIII. Application of the Remedy
  42. Chapter I. Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
  43. Chapter II. How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
  44. Chapter III. The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
  45. Chapter IV. Indorsements and Objections
  46. Book IX. Effects of the Remedy
  47. Chapter I. Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
  48. Chapter II. Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
  49. Chapter III. Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
  50. Chapter IV. Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
  51. Book X. The Law of Human Progress
  52. Chapter I. The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
  53. Chapter II. Differences in Civilization—To What Due
  54. Chapter III. The Law of Human Progress
  55. Chapter IV. How Modern Civilization May Decline
  56. Chapter V. The Central Truth
  57. Conclusion. The Problem of Individual Life

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