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(1839-1897)
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Editor/Trans.
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First Pub. Date
1879
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Publisher/Edition
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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Pub. Date
1920
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Comments
Includes an introduction by Henry George, Jr.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Cover Table of Contents |
| About the Book and Author |
| Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of "Progress and Poverty," by Henry George, Jr. |
| Preface to Fourth Edition |
| INTRODUCTORY The Problem |
| BOOK I. WAGES AND CAPITAL |
| I.1 The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency |
| I.2 The Meaning of the Terms |
| I.3 Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor |
| I.4 The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital |
| I.5 The Real Functions of Capital |
| BOOK II. POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE |
| II.1 The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support |
| II.2 Inference from Facts |
| II.3 Inferences from Analogy |
| II.4 Disproof of the Malthusian Theory |
| BOOK III. THE LAWS OF DISTRIBUTION |
| III.1 The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws |
| III.2 Rent and the Law of Rent |
| III.3 Of Interest and the Cause of Interest |
| III.4 Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest |
| III.5 The Law of Interest |
| III.6 Wages and the Law of Wages |
| III.7 The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws |
| III.8 The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained |
| BOOK IV. EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROGRESS UPON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH |
| IV.1 The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek |
| IV.2 The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth |
| IV.3 The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth |
| IV.4 Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress |
| BOOK V. THE PROBLEM SOLVED |
| V.1 The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression |
| V.2 The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth |
| BOOK VI. THE REMEDY |
| VI.1 Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated |
| VI.2 The True Remedy |
| BOOK VII. JUSTICE OF THE REMEDY |
| VII.1 The Injustice of Private Property in Land |
| VII.2 The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land |
| VII.3 Claim of Land Owners to Compensation |
| VII.4 Property in Land Historically Considered |
| VII.5 Of Property in Land in the United States |
| BOOK VIII. APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY |
| VIII.1 Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land |
| VIII.2 How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured |
| VIII.3 The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation |
| VIII.4 Indorsements and Objections |
| BOOK IX. EFFECTS OF THE REMEDY |
| IX.1 Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth |
| IX.2 Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence on Production |
| IX.3 Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes |
| IX.4 Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life |
| BOOK X. THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS |
| X.1 The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency |
| X.2 Differences in Civilization—To What Due |
| X.3 The Law of Human Progress |
| X.4 How Modern Civilization May Decline |
| X.5 The Central Truth |
| CONCLUSION. The Problem of Individual Life |
| Footnotes |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.