Progress and poverty : an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth. The remedy / by Henry George.

The Problem, 3 -- Book I. Wages and capital -- I. The current doctrine of wages-its insufficiency, 17 -- II. The meaning of the terms, 31 -- III. Wages not drawn from capital, but produced by the labor, 50 -- IV. The maintenance of laborers not drawn from capital, 71 -- V. The real functions of capital, 80 -- Book II. Population and subsistence -- 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 -- 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, 218 -- VIII. The statics of the problem thus explained, 221 -- Book IV. Effect of material progress upon the distribution of wealth -- I. The dynamics of the problem yet to seek, 227 -- II. Effect of increase of population upon the distribution of wealth, 230 -- III. Effect of improvements in the arts upon the distribution of wealth, 244 -- IV. Effect of the expectation raised by material progress, 255 -- Book V. The problem solved, 263 -- I. The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial depression, 263 -- II. The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth, 282 -- Book VI. The remedy -- I. Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated, 299 -- II. The true remedy, 328 -- Book VII. Justice of the remedy -- I. Injustice of private property in land, 333 -- II. Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land, 347 -- III. Claim of land owners to compensation, 358 -- IV. Property in land historically considered, 368 -- V. Property in land in the United States, 385 -- Book VIII. Application of the remedy -- I. Private property in land inconsistent with the best use of land, 397 -- II. How equal rights to the land may be asserted and secured, 403 -- III. The proposition tried by the canons of taxation, 408 -- IV. Indorsements and objections, 422 -- Book IX. Effects of the remedy -- I. Of the effect upon the production of wealth, 433 -- II. Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon production, 440 -- III. Of the effect upon individuals and classes, 447 -- IV. Of the changes that would be wrought in social organization and social life, 454 -- Book X. The law of human progress -- I. The current theory of human progress-its insufficiency, 475 -- II. Differences in civilization-to what due, 489 -- III. The law of human progress, 506 -- IV. How modern civilization may decline, 527 -- V. The central truth, 544 -- Conclusion, 555 -- The problem of individual life, 555.