Progress and Poverty

Henry George

[1879 / An edited and abridged edition by Bob Drake, 2006]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Publisher's Foreward
• Editor's Preface
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Introduction: The Problem of Poverty Amid Progress

FIRST PART: WAGES AND CAPITAL

• Chapter 1:
  Why Traditional Theories of Wages are Wrong
• Chapter 2:
  Defining Terms
• Chapter 3:
  Wages Are Produced By Labor, Not Drawn From Capital
• Chapter 4:
  Workers Not Supported By Capital
• Chapter 5:
  The True Functions of Capital

SECOND PART: POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE

• Chapter 6:
  The Theory of Population According to Malthus
• Chapter 7:
  Malthus vs. Facts
• Chapter 8:
  Malthus vs. Analogies
• Chapter 9:
  Malthusian Theory Disproved

THIRD PART: THE LAWS OF DISTRIBUTION

• Chapter 10:
  The Necessary Relation of the Laws of Distribution
• Chapter 11:
  The Law of Rent
• Chapter 12:
  The Cause of Interest
• Chapter 13:
  False Interest
• Chapter 14:
  The Law of Interest
• Chapter 15:
  The Law of Wages
• Chapter 16:
  Correlating the Laws of Distribution

FOURTH PART: THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROGRESS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

• Chapter 17:
  The Problem Explained
• Chapter 18:
  Dynamic Forces Not Yet Explored
• Chapter 19:
  Population Growth and the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter 20:
  Technology and the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter 21:
  Speculation

FIFTH PART: THE PROBLEM SOLVED

• Chapter 22:
  The Root Cause of Recessions
• Chapter 23:
  The Persistence of Poverty Despite Increasing Wealth

SIXTH PART: THE REMEDY

• Chapter 24:
  Ineffective Remedies
• Chapter 25:
  The True Remedy

SEVENTH PART: JUSTICE OF THE REMEDY

• Chapter 26:
  The Injustice of Private Property
• Chapter 27:
  The Enslavement of Labor
• Chapter 28:
  Are Landowners Entitled to Compensation
• Chapter 29:
  History of Land as Private Property
• Chapter 30:
  History of Property in Land in the United States

EIGHTH PART: APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY

• Chapter 31:
  Private Property in Land is Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
• Chapter 32:
  Securing Equal Rights To Land
• Chapter 33:
  The Canons of Taxation
• Chapter 34:
  Endorsements and Objections

NINTH PART: EFFECTS OF THE REMEDY

• Chapter 35:
  The Effect on Production
• Chapter 36:
  The Effect on the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter 37:
  The Effect on Individuals and Classes
• Chapter 38:
  Changes in Society

TENTH PART: THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS

• Chapter 39:
  The Cause of Human Progress
• Chapter 40:
  Differences in Civilizations
• Chapter 41:
  The Law of Human Progress
• Chapter 42:
  How Modern Civilization May Decline
• Chapter 43:
  The Central Truth
• Chapter 44:
  Conclusion: The Individual Life

AFTERWORD

• Who Was Henry George,
  By Agnes George de Mille

• Index