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  • Bagehot, Walter, arrest of civilization, 480-481;
  • why barbarians waste away, 497-498.
  • Bastiat, cause of interest, 176-186.
  • Bisset, Andrew, knight’s service, 381n.
  • Buckle, assumes current doctrine of wages, 18;
  • on Malthus, 92-93, 100;
  • interest and profits, 158;
  • relation between rent, wages and interest, 170.
  • Cairnes, J. E., high wages and interest in new countries, 20-22.
  • California, economic principles exemplified in, 19-20, 61-63, 78, 144-146, 174, 255-256, 271-275, 290-291, 344, 383-385, 392, 398, 434-435.
  • Capital, current doctrine of its relation to wages, 17-18;
  • idle in industrial depressions, 21;
  • theory that wages are drawn from, 20-23;
  • deductions from this theory, 24-25;
  • varying definitions of, 32-34;
  • difficulties besetting use of term, 36-37;
  • exclusions of term, 37-38;
  • distinguished from wealth, 41-47, 71-72;
  • used in two senses, 56-57;
  • definitions of Smith, Ricardo, McCulloch, and Mill compared, 41-45;
  • wages not drawn from, 23-29, 49-69;
  • does not limit industry, 26-29, 57-58, 80-86;
  • does not maintain laborers, 70-78;
  • modes in which it aids labor, 79, 186-188, 195-196;
  • real functions of, 79-87;
  • may limit form and productiveness of industry, 80-82;
  • apparent want of generally due to some other want, 82-85;
  • limited by requirements of production, 85-86;
  • poverty not due to scarcity of, 85-86;
  • not necessary to production, 163-164;
  • a form of labor, 164, 198, 203;
  • its essence, 179;
  • spurious, 189-194;
  • not fixed in quantity, 195;
  • if the only active factor in production, 201-202;
  • its profits as affected by wages, 308-309;
  • wastes when not used, 311;
  • investe maintained by capital, 70-78;
  • where land is monopolized, have no interest in increase of productive power, 281;
  • made more dependent by civilization, 281-284;
  • organizations of, 308-314;
  • condition not improved by division of land, 321-325;
  • their enslavement the ultimate result of private property in land, 345-355.
  • Land, meaning of term, 37;
  • value of is not wealth, 39, 165-166;
  • diminishing productiveness cited in support Malthusian theory, 97;
  • how far true, 133-134, 228-241;
  • maintenance of prices, 274-275;
  • estimated value of in England, 287;
  • effects of monopolization in England, 288-289;
  • relation of man to, 292-294;
  • division of will not relieve poverty, 319-325;
  • tendency to concentration in ownership, 319-321;
  • necessity for abolishing private ownership, 326-327;
  • injustice of private property in, 331-392;
  • absurdity of legal titles to, 340, 342-344;
  • aristocracy and serfdom spring from ownership of, 294, 348-355, 514-515;
  • purchase by government, 357-358;
  • development of private ownership, 366-382;
  • commons, 375-376;
  • tenures in the United States, 383-392;
  • private ownership inconsistent with best use, 395-400;
  • how may be made common property, 401-427;
  • effects of this, 452-469;
  • increase of productiveness from better distribution of population, 449n.
  • Land owners, power of, 167, 292-294, 345-355;
  • ease of their combination, 312-313;
  • their claims to compensation, 356-365;
  • will not be injured by confiscation of rent, 445-469.
  • Latimer, Hugh, increase of rent in Sixteenth Century, 288-289.
  • Laveleye, M. de, on small land holdings, 324-325;
  • primitive land tenures, 369;
  • Teutonic equality, 372.
  • Lawyers, confusions in their terminology, 335-336;
  • their inculcation of the sacredness of property, 366;
  • influence on land tenures, 370n.
  • Life, quantity of human, 109-110;
  • limits to, 129-134;
  • reproductive power gives increase to capital, 181;
  • balance of, 196-197;
  • meaning of, 561.
  • Macaulay, English rule in India, 116;
  • future of United States, 534.
  • Ma ts does not involve diminution of, 229-232;
  • tendency to large scale, 320-321, 325, 531-532;
  • susceptible of enormous increase, 431-434, 466, 547.
  • Profits, meaning of the term and confusions in its use, 158-162, 189-194.
  • Progress, human, current theory of considered, 473-486;
  • in what it consists, 487-502;
  • its law, 503-523, 541-549;
  • retrogression, 524-540.
  • Progress, material, connection with poverty, 7-11, 222;
  • in what it consists, 227;
  • effects upon distribution of wealth, 228-241;
  • effect of expectation raised by, 253-258;
  • how it results in industrial depressions, 261-279;
  • why it produces poverty, 280-294.
  • Property, basis of, 331-334, 340-342;
  • erroneous categories of, 335;
  • derivation of distinction between real and personal, 377;
  • private in land not necessary to use of land, 395-400;
  • idea of transferred to land, 514-515.
  • Protection, its fallacies have their root in belief as to wages, 19;
  • effect on agriculturists, 447-449;
  • abolition by England, effect of, 252;
  • how protective taxes fall, 447-448.
  • Quesnay, his doctrine, 422-423, 431.
  • Rent, bearing upon Malthusian theory, 96-98, 132-134, 228-241, 242-252;
  • meaning of the term, 165;
  • arises from monopoly, 166;
  • law of, 168-170;
  • its corollaries, 171, 217-218;
  • effect of their recognition, 171-172;
  • as related to interest, 201-203;
  • as related to wages, 204-216;
  • advance of explains why wages and interest do not advance, 221-222;
  • increased by increase of population, 228-241;
  • increased by improvements, 242-252;
  • by speculation, 253-258;
  • speculative advance in the cause of industrial depressions, 261-279;
  • advance in explains the persistence of poverty, 280-294;
  • increase of not prevented by tenant right, 322;
  • or by division of land, 324-325;
  • serf, generally fixed, 353;
  • confiscation of future increase, 357-359;
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