CONTENTS 
INTRODUCTORY 
The Problem 
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Book I.—WaaEs AND CAPITAL 
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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 . . . . 
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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 
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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 . . . 
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