INTRODUCTORY. PAGE 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 BOOK VI.—THE REMEDY. Chapter I.—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated 297 II.—The true remedy 326 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 III.—Claim of land owners to compensation 356 IV.—Property in land historically considered 366