Progress and Poverty

1. 00 - Frontmatter, How the Book Came To Be Written, and Preface

   23:48

2. 01 - Introductory

   22:04

3. 02 - Book I, Chapter 1: The Current Doctrine of Wages - Its Insufficiency

   26:42

4. 03 - Book I, Chapter 2: The Meaning of the Terms

   37:49

5. 04 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 1-25

   28:19

6. 05 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 26-38

   14:20

7. 06 - Book I, Chapter 4: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital

   18:03

8. 07 - Book I, Chapter 5: The Real Functions of Capital

   17:44

9. 08 - Book II, Chapter 1: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support

   25:28

10. 09 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 1-19

    21:30

11. 10 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 20-40

    34:42

12. 11 - Book II, Chapter 3: Inferences from Analogy

    21:14

13. 12 - Book II, Chapter 4: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory

    22:51

14. 13 - Book III, Chapter 1: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution - The Necessary Relation of These Laws

    23:37

15. 14 - Book III, Chapter 2: Rent and the Law of Rent

    16:25

16. 15 - Book III, Chapter 3: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest

    31:43

17. 16 - Book III, Chapter 4: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest

    12:08

18. 17 - Book III, Chapter 5: The Law of Interest

    17:01

19. 18 - Book III, Chapter 6: Wages and the Law of Wages

    26:09

20. 19 - Book III, Chapter 7: The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws

    4:24

21. 20 - Book III, Chapter 8: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained

    7:21

22. 21 - Book IV, Chapter 1: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek

    6:11

23. 22 - Book IV, Chapter 2: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth

    27:51

24. 23 - Book IV, Chapter 3: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth

    21:45

25. 24 - Book IV, Chapter 4: Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress

    11:25

26. 25 - Book V, Chapter 1: The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression

    38:53

27. 26 - Book V, Chapter 2: The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth

    29:17

28. 27 - Book VI, Chapter 1: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated - paragraphs 1-22

    23:11

29. 28 - Book VI, Chapter 1: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated - paragraphs 23-54

    37:34

30. 29 - Book VI, Chapter 2: The True Remedy

    4:52

31. 30 - Book VII, Chapter 1: The Injustice of Private Property in Land

    30:10

32. 31 - Book VII, Chapter 2: The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land

    22:35

33. 32 - Book VII, Chapter 3: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation

    20:53

34. 33 - Book VII, Chapter 4: Property in Land Historically Considered

    35:24

35. 34 - Book VII, Chapter 5: Of Property in Land in the United States

    20:38

36. 35 - Book VIII, Chapter 1: Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land

    12:33

37. 36 - Book VIII, Chapter 2: How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured

    11:12

38. 37 - Book VIII, Chapter 3: The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation

    28:44

39. 38 - Book VIII, Chapter 4: Indorsements and Objections

    16:15

40. 39 - Book IX, Chapter 1: Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth

    13:36

41. 40 - Book IX, Chapter 2: Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production

    14:06

42. 41 - Book IX, Chapter 3: Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes

    13:50

43. 42 - Book IX, Chapter 4: Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life

    37:43

44. 43 - Book X, Chapter 1: The Current Theory of Human Progress - Its Insufficiency

    29:35

45. 44 - Book X, Chapter 2: Differences in Civilization - To What Due

    33:47

46. 45 - Book X, Chapter 3: The Law of Human Progress - paragraphs 1-21

    16:27

47. 46 - Book X, Chapter 3: The Law of Human Progress - paragraphs 22-47

    29:36

48. 47 - Book X, Chapter 4: How Modern Civilization May Decline

    36:12

49. 48 - Book X, Chapter 5: The Central Truth

    18:53

50. 49 - Conclusion: The Problem of Individual Life

    22:43

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