Of various minor schemes, Communistic and Socialistic.

  • § 5. The Socialist objections to the present order of Society examined.
  • § 6. Property in land different from property in Movables.
  • Chapter II. Of Wages.
  • § 1. Of Competition and Custom.
  • § 2. The Wages-fund, and the Objections to it Considered.
  • § 3. Examination of some popular Opinions respecting Wages.
  • § 4. Certain rare Circumstances excepted, High Wages imply Restraints on Population.
  • § 5. Due Restriction of Population the only Safeguard of a Laboring-Class.
  • Chapter III. Of Remedies For Low Wages.
  • § 1. A Legal or Customary Minimum of Wages, with a Guarantee of Employment.
  • § 2. —Would Require as a Condition Legal Measures for Repression of Population.
  • § 3. Allowances in Aid of Wages and the Standard of Living.
  • § 4. Grounds for Expecting Improvement in Public Opinion on the Subject of Population.
  • § 5. Twofold means of Elevating the Habits of the Laboring-People; by Education, and by Foreign and Home Colonization.
  • Chapter IV. Of The Differences Of Wages In Different Employments.
  • § 1. Differences of Wages Arising from Different Degrees of Attractiveness in Different Employments.
  • § 2. Differences arising from Natural Monopolies.
  • § 3. Effect on Wages of the Competition of Persons having other Means of Support.
  • § 4. Wages of Women, why Lower than those of Men.
  • § 5. Differences of Wages Arising from Laws, Combinations, or Customs.
  • Chapter V. Of Profits.
  • § 1. Profits include Interest and Risk; but, correctly speaking, do not include Wages of Superintendence.
  • § 2. The Minimum of Profits; what produces Variations in the Amount of Profits.
  • § 3. General Tendency of Profits to an Equality.
  • § 4. The Cause of the Existence of any Profit; the Advances of Capitalists consist of Wages of Labor.
  • § 5. The Rate of Profit depends on the Cost of Labor.
  • Chapter VI. Of Rent.
  • § 1. Rent the Effect of a Natural Monopoly.
  • § 2. No Land can pay Rent except Land of such Quality or Situation as exists in less Quantity than the Demand.
  • § 3.