| Description |
1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Inequality Ser. ; v.5 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Inequality Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Ideas and Ideals -- Chapter I. Present and Future -- Recent Progress -- A Period of Change -- Compulsory General Education -- The Demand for Social Justice -- Radical and Socialist Reforms Mere Palliatives -- Anticipation -- Chapter II. Human Evolution -- The Study of Progress -- The Survival of the Fittest -- Group Selection -- The Importance of Tradition -- Variations of Individuals -- Altruists and Egoists -- Chapter III. Composition of the People |
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Occupational Selection in Primitive Times -- Racial Qualities and Mixtures -- Modern Occupational Selection -- Occupations of Women -- Effects of Occupation on Character -- Chapter IV. The Social Classes -- Nations and Classes -- Primitive Regulation of Population -- Origin of Caste in Social Function -- Incomes of Ability Scarce in Relation to Demand -- Incomes Dependent on Property -- Conditions of Growth of the Propertied Classes -- The Social Ladder -- Chapter V. Defects of the Capitalist System -- The Science of Economics -- Economics of the Competitive System -- Rent of Land |
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Differences of Capital Goods -- Adjustment of Supply to Demand -- Labour Supply -- The Standard of Living -- Effect of Trade Union Rule on Supply -- Earnings of Intellectual Labour -- Interest on Capital -- Profits -- Wastes of the Competitive System -- The Avoidance of Waste in Industries -- Chapter VI. Economic Reasons for Equality -- Social Tendencies -- The Demand for Equality -- The Origin of Inequality of Incomes -- Economic Causes of Inequality of Incomes -- Equality of Earnings Possible in the Competitive System -- Principle of Minimum for Efficiency -- Principle of Unequal Sacrifice |
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The Inevitable Tendency to Equality of Remuneration -- Chapter VII. Incentives to Labour -- Declining Effectiveness of Individual Self-Interest -- Incentives in the Existing Economic System -- Other Egoistic Incentives -- Altruistic Incentives -- Incentives to Labour Under Communism -- Chapter VIII. The Objective -- Moral Gains -- The Spiritual Gain -- The Revival of Art -- Intellectual Life -- Politics -- The Content of Life -- Part II: Economic Organization -- Chapter IX. National Economy -- General Plan of Organization -- The Organization of Production -- The Control of Industry |
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The Organization of Supply -- Housing Accommodation -- Stores and the Supply of Goods to them -- Chapter X. Production and the National Dividend -- Total Production Stream -- The Capital Fund -- The National Dividend -- Occupations and the National Dividend -- Occupations Under Communism -- Social Results of Capitalist Waste -- The Increase of the National Dividend -- Chapter XI. The Distribution of Wealth -- The Theory of Equal Means of Enjoyment -- The Abolition of Money -- The Need of Variety in Methods of Supply -- Nature of 'Money' Units and 'Prices' -- Incomes and Satisfaction |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Equal Opportunity of Enjoyment |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000837841 |
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100083784X |
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