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• Other Books By Henry George
• Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of "progress and Poverty"
• Preface to Fourth Edition
• Introductory the Problem
• Introductory the Problem
• Book I Wages and Capital
• Chapter I the Current Doctrine of Wages—its Insufficiency
• Chapter Ii the Meaning of the Terms
• Chapter Iii Wages Not Drawn From Capital, But Produced By the Labor
• Chapter Iv the Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn From Capital
• Chapter V the Real Functions of Capital
• Book Ii Population and Subsistence
• Chapter I the Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
• Chapter Ii Inferences From Facts
• Chapter Iii Inferences From Analogy
• Chapter Iv Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
• Book Iii the Laws of Distribution
• Chapter I the Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—necessary Relation of These Laws
• Chapter Ii Rent and the Law of Rent
• Chapter Iii of Interest and the Cause of Interest
• Chapter Iv of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken For Interest
• Chapter V the Law of Interest
• Chapter Vi Wages and the Law of Wages
• Chapter Vii the Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws
• Chapter Viii the Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
• Book Iv Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter I the Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
• Chapter Ii the Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter Iii the Effect of Improvements In the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter Iv Effect of the Expectation Raised By Material Progress
• Book V the Problem Solved
• Chapter I the Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
• Chapter Ii the Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
• Book Vi the Remedy
• Chapter I Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
• Chapter Ii the True Remedy
• Book Vii Justice of the Remedy
• Chapter I the Injustice of Private Property In Land
• Chapter Ii the Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property In Land
• Chapter Iii Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
• Chapter Iv Property In Land Historically Considered
• Chapter V of Property In Land In the United States
• Book Viii Application of the Remedy
• Chapter I Private Property In Land Inconsistent With the Best Use of Land
• Chapter Ii How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
• Chapter Iii the Proposition Tried By the Canons of Taxation
• Chapter Iv Indorsements and Objections
• Book IX. Effects of the Remedy: Chapter I of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
• Chapter Ii of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
• Chapter Iii of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
• Chapter Iv of the Changes That Would Be Wrought In Social Organization and Social Life
• Book X. The Law of Human Progress: Chapter I the Current Theory of Human Progress—its Insufficiency
• Chapter Ii Differences In Civilization—to What Due
• Chapter Iii the Law of Human Progress
• Chapter Iv How Modern Civilization May Decline
• Chapter V the Central Truth
• Conclusion the Problem of Individual Life

Introductory
The Problem

• Ye build! ye build! but ye enter not in,
• Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin;
• From the land of promise ye fade and die,
• Ere its verdure gleams forth on your wearied eye.

—Mrs. Sigourney