Chapter Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital.

Chapter IV. Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital. § 1. Industry is Limited by Capital. § 2. Increase of Capital gives Increased Employment to Labor, Without Assignable Bounds. § 3. Capital is the result of Saving, and all Capital is Consumed. § 4. Capital is kept up by Perpetual Reproduction, as shown by the Recovery of Countries from Devastation. § 5. Effects of Defraying Government Expenditure by Loans. § 6. Demand for Commodities is not Demand for Labor.

Chapter On Circulating And Fixed Capital.

Chapter V. On Circulating And Fixed Capital. § 1. Fixed and Circulating Capital. § 2. Increase of Fixed Capital, when, at the Expense of Circulating, might be Detrimental to the Laborers. § 3. —This seldom, if ever, occurs.

Chapter Of Causes Affecting The Efficiency Of Production.

Chapter VI. Of Causes Affecting The Efficiency Of Production. § 1. General Causes of Superior Productiveness. § 2. Combination and Division of Labor Increase Productiveness. § 3. Advantages of Division of Labor. § 4. Production on a Large and Production on a Small Scale.

Chapter Of The Law Of The Increase Of Labor.

Chapter VII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Labor. § 1. The Law of the Increase of Production Depends on those of Three Elements—Labor. Capital, and Land. § 2. The Law of Population. § 3. By what Checks the Increase of Population is Practically Limited.

Chapter Of The Law Of The Increase Of Capital.

Chapter VIII. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Capital. § 1. Means for Saving in the Surplus above Necessaries. § 2. Motive for Saving in the Surplus above Necessaries. § 3. Examples of Deficiency in the Strength of this Desire. § 4. Examples of Excess of this Desire.

Chapter Of The Law Of The Increase Of Production From Land.

Chapter IX. Of The Law Of The Increase Of Production From Land. § 1. The Law of Production from the Soil, a Law of Diminishing Return in Proportion to the Increased Application of Labor and Capital. § 2. Antagonist Principle to the Law of Diminishing Return; the Progress of Improvements in Production. § 3. —In Railways. § 4. —In Manufactures. § 5. Law Holds True of Mining.

Chapter Consequences Of The Foregoing Laws.

Chapter X. Consequences Of The Foregoing Laws. § 1. Remedies for Weakness of the Principle of Accumulation. § 2. Even where the Desire to Accumulate is Strong, Population must be Kept within the Limits of Population from Land. § 3. Necessity of Restraining Population not superseded by Free Trade in Food. § 4. —Nor by Emigration.

Chapter Distribution.

Book II. Distribution.

Chapter Of Property.

Chapter I. Of Property. § 1. Individual Property and its opponents. § 2. The case for Communism against private property presented. § 3. The Socialists who appeal to state-help. § 4. 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 Of Wages.

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.