The annotated works of Henry George. Volume II, Progress and poverty /
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Madison, NJ :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Preface; Introduction; Preface to the Centenary Edition; Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Progress and Poverty; Preface to the Fourth Edition of Progress and Poverty; The Problem; Wages and Capital; The Current Doctrine of Wages-Its Insufficiency; The Meaning of the Terms; Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor; The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital; The Real Functions of Capital; Population and Subsistence; The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support; Inferences from Facts; Inferences from Analogy.
- Disproof of the Malthusian TheoryThe Laws of Distribution; The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution-The Necessary Relation of These Laws; Rent and the Law of Rent; Of Interest and the Cause of Interest; Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest; The Law of Interest; Wages and the Law of Wages; The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws; The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained; Effect of Material Progress upon the Distribution of Wealth; The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek; The Effect of Increase of Population upon the Distribution of Wealth.
- The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of WealthEffect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress; The Problem Solved; The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression; The Persistence of Poverty amid Advancing Wealth; The Remedy; Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated; The True Remedy; Justice of the Remedy; The Injustice of Private Property in Land; The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land; Claim of Land Owners to Compensation; Private Property in Land Historically Considered.
- Of Property in Land in the United StatesApplication of the Remedy; Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land; How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured; The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation; Indorsements and Objections; Effects of the Remedy; Of the Effect upon the Production of Wealth; Of the Effect upon Distribution and Thence upon Production; Of the Effect upon Individuals and Classes; Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life; The Law of Human Progress; The Current Theory of Human Progress-Its Insufficiency.
- Differences in Civilization-To What DueThe Law of Human Progress; How Modern Civilization May Decline; The Central Truth; The Problem of Individual Life; Index; About the Contributors.