| Introductory. |
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| The Problem | 3 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Book VI.—The Remedy. |
| Chapter | I.—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated | 297 |
| II.—The true remedy | 326 |
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| 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 |
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