True and False Economics

W. Arthur Dowe

[1989]

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Preface

PART I: FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS

• Chapter 1:
  Fundamental Economics
• Chapter 2:
  The Science Proper
• Chapter 3:
  Goods (Wealth) And Services
• Chapter 4:
  The Terms
• Chapter 5:
  Social Production
• Chapter 6:
  Capital
• Chapter 7:
  Distribution
• Chapter 8:
  More On Distribution
• Chapter 9:
  Capital And Interest
• Chapter 10:
  Economic Rent
• Chapter 11:
  The Economic Law Of Rent
• Chapter 12:
  The Margin, With Diagrams
• Chapter 13:
  "Passing On"
• Chapter 14:
  Sites And Rent
• Chapter 15:
  Trade -- Improts And Exports
• Chapter 16:
  Supply And Demand
• Chapter 17:
  Value
• Chapter 18:
  Theory Of Value
• Chapter 19:
  Investment
• Chapter 20:
  Repetitions And Comments On Value
• Chapter 21:
  The Two Kinds Of Labor

PART II: THE ETHICAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS

• Chapter 22:
  Economics and Ethics

PART III: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

• Chapter 23:
  Unemployment -- The King Of Problems
• Chapter 24:
  Poverty
• Chapter 25:
  War And Peace
• Chapter 26:
  Government And Misgovernment
• Chapter 27:
  Freedom
• Chapter 28:
  Privilege
• Chapter 29:
  Inflation
• Chapter 30:
  Depressions

PART IV: POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS AND CONFUSIONS

• Chapter 31:
  Laissez Faire
• Chapter 32:
  Trade Balances

PART V: POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS

• Chapter 33:
  Managing the Economy / Money Is Wealth / Imports Cause Unemployment / Land Is Wealth / Capital versus Labour (Employers versus Employees) / Competition Is Harmful
• Chapter 34:
  The Weightier Matters of the Moral Law

PART VI: ANTIQUATED CONVENTIONS, LAWS AND CUSTOMS

• Chapter 35:
  Deification of Parliaments / Diplomacy / Honours

PART VII: THE SOVEREIGN REMEDY

• Chapter 36:
  Remedy for Involuntary Poverty and Unemployment
• Chapter 37:
  The Effects of the Remedy
• Chapter 38:
  Land Titles and Ownership
• Chapter 39:
  Land-Ownership
• Chapter 40:
  Taxation
• Chapter 41:
  Taxes Versus Rent
• Chapter 42:
  Speculative Rent
• Chapter 43:
  Land-Value and Land-Price

PART VIII: OTHER TOPICS OF PRESSING SOCIAL IMPORTANCE

• Chapter 44:
  Socialism and Communism / Micro-Economics and Macro-Economics / Technology / Revolution / Property or Ownership / Political Affairs / Democracy / Parliamentary Privilege / Public Education

PART IX: THE SOCIAL FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA

• Chapter 45:
  The Social Future of Australia

PART X: GREAT WITNESSES TO SOCIAL TRUTH

• Chapter 46:
  Great Witnesses to Social Truth

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• MESSAGE TO PROSPERITY By Sir Samuel Griffith

• EXTRACTS FROM THE DRAFT BILL "To Declare the Natural Law Relating to the Acquisition and Ownership of Private Property"

• APPENDIX 1: Economics in One Lesson by H. Hazlitt

• APPENDIX 2: Friedman and Monetarism

• APPENDIX 3: Communism and Anti-Communism

• APPENDIX 4: Is the Rent Sufficent?

• APPENDIX 5: Passing On the Rent Levy

• BIBLIOGRAPHY

• LITERATURE

• INDEX

• RENT CHART

• AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY