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CONTENTS.

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Introductory.
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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