Effect of the Progress of Society in moderating fluctuations of Value. Chapter II. Influence Of The Progress Of Industry And Population On Rents, Profits, And Wages. § 1. Characteristic features of industrial Progress. § 2. First two cases, Population and Capital increasing, the arts of production stationary. § 3. The arts of production advancing, capital and population stationary. § 4. Theoretical results, if all three Elements progressive. § 5. Practical Results. Chapter III. Of The Tendency Of Profits To A Minimum. § 1. Different Theories as to the fall of Profits. § 2. What determines the minimum rate of Profit? § 3. In old and opulent countries, profits habitually near to the minimum. § 4. -prevented from reaching it by commercial revulsions. § 5. -by improvements in Production. § 6. -by the importation of cheap Necessaries and Implements. § 7. -by the emigration of Capital. Chapter IV. Consequences Of The Tendency Of Profits To A Minimum, And The Stationary State. § 1. Abstraction of Capital not necessarily a national loss. § 2. In opulent countries, the extension of machinery not detrimental but beneficial to Laborers. § 3. Stationary state of wealth and population dreaded by some writers, but not in itself undesirable. Chapter V. On The Possible Futurity Of The Laboring-Classes. § 1. The possibility of improvement while Laborers remain merely receivers of Wages. § 2.-through small holdings, by which the landlord's gain is shared. § 3. -through co-operation, by which the manager's wages are shared. § 4. Distributive Co-operation. § 5. Productive Co-Operation. § 6. Industrial Partnership. § 7. People's Banks. Book V. On The Influence Of Government. Chapter I. On The General Principles Of Taxation. § 1. Four fundamental rules of Taxation. § 2. Grounds of the principle of Equality of Taxation. § 3. Should the same percentage be levied on all amounts of Income? § 4. Should the same percentage be levied on Perpetual and on Terminable Incomes? § 5. The increase of the rent of land from natural causes a fit subject of peculiar Taxation. § 6. Taxes falling on Capital not necessarily objectionable. Chapter II. Of Direct Taxes. § 1. Direct taxes either on income or expenditure. § 2. Taxes on rent. § 3. -on profits. § 4. -on Wages. § 5. -on Income. § 6. A House-Tax. Chapter III. Of Taxes On Commodities, Or Indirect Taxes. § 1. A Tax on all commodities would fall on Profits. § 2. Taxes on particular commodities fall on the consumer. § 3. Peculiar effects of taxes on Necessaries. § 4. -how modified by the tendency of profits to a minimum. § 5. Effects of discriminating Duties. § 6. Effects produced on international Exchange by Duties on Exports and on Imports. Chapter IV. Comparison Between Direct And Indirect Taxation. § 1. Arguments for and against direct Taxation. § 2. What forms of indirect taxation are most eligible? § 3. Practical rules for indirect taxation. § 4. Taxation systems of the United States and other Countries. § 5.