Progress and poverty

George, Henry

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Progress and poverty: an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth

Author:: George, Henry

Publisher:: Schalkenbach

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Year of publication:: 1942

Language:: English

Topic:: H - Political economy

Shelfmark:: H/G348 (50)

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY The Problem PAGE D Book I.—WaaEs AND CAPITAL CHAPTER I.—The current doctrine of wages—its insufficiency . . II.—The meaning of the terms . . . . . . . . . . LLL —Wages not drawn from capital, but produced by the abor . . . . Lo. oe ee IV.—The maintenance of laborers not drawn from capital . V.—The real functions of capital . . . . 17 31 50 71 80 Boog II.—POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE I.—The Malthusian theory, its genesis and support . II.—Inferences from facts . . . . . . IIT.—Inferences from analogy . . . . IV.—Disproof of the Malthusian theory Book III.—THE Laws oF DISTRIBUTION I.—The inquiry narrowed to the laws of distribution— necessary relation of these laws . . IT.—Rent and the law of rent . . . . IIT.—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 . . . . . VIIL.—Correlation and co-ordination of these laws . VIII.—The statics of the problem thus explained 91 103 129 140 153 165 178 189 195 204 218 2921 Book IV.—ErrecT oF MATERIAL PROGRESS UPON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH I.—The dynamics of the problem yet to seek . . . . . I1.—Effect of increase of population upon the distribution of wealth . . . 297 230 1X

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