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 * Introductory
 * The Problem
 * Book I — Wages and Capital
 * 1) The current doctrine of wages–its insufficiency
 * 2) The meaning of the terms
 * 3) Wages not drawn from capital, but produced by the labor
 * 4) The maintenance of laborers not drawn from capital
 * 5) The real functions of capital
 * Book II — Population and Subsistence
 * 1) The Malthusian theory, its genesis and support
 * 2) Inferences from facts
 * 3) Inferences from analogy
 * 4) Disproof of the Malthusian theory
 * Book III — The Laws of Distribution
 * 1) The inquiry narrowed to the laws of distribution — necessary relation of these laws
 * 2) Rent and the law of rent
 * 3) Interest and the cause of interest
 * 4) Of spurious capital and profits often mistaken for interest
 * 5) The law of interest
 * 6) Wages and the law of wages
 * 7) Correlation and co-ordination of these laws
 * 8) The statics of the problem thus explained
 * Book IV — Effect of Material Progress on the Distribution of Wealth
 * 1) The dynamics of the problem yet to seek
 * 2) Effect of increase of population upon the distribution of wealth
 * 3) Effect of improvement in the arts upon the distribution of wealth
 * 4) Effect of the expectation raised by material progress
 * Book V — The Problem Solved
 * 1) The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial depression
 * 2) The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth
 * 3) Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated
 * 4) The true remedy
 * Book VII — Justice of the Remedy
 * 1) Injustice of private property in land
 * 2) Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land
 * 3) Claim of landowners to compensation
 * 4) Property in land historically considered
 * 5) Property in land in the United States
 * Book VIII — Application of the Remedy
 * 1) Private property in land inconsistent with the best use of land
 * 2) How equal rights to the land may be asserted and secured
 * 3) The proposition tried by the canons of taxation
 * 4) Indorsements and objections
 * Book IX — Effects of the Remedy
 * 1) Of the effect upon the production of wealth
 * 2) Of the effect upon distribution and thence on production
 * 3) Of the effect upon individuals and classes
 * 4) Of the changes that would be wrought in social organization and social life
 * Book X — The Law of Human Progress
 * 1) The current theory of human progress – its insufficiency
 * 2) Differences in civilization — to what due
 * 3) The law of human progress
 * 4) How modern civilization may decline
 * 5) The central truth
 * Conclusion
 * The Problem of Individual Life