The Present Distribution of Wealth in The United States

Charles B. Spahr, Ph.D.

[1896]

• Title Page and Preface
• Contents

PART I: THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY

• Chapter 1:
  English Retrospect -- The Tendency Toward Concentration
• Chapter 2:
  American Restrospect -- The Old Sectionalism and the New
• Chapter 3:
  The Present Situation -- Distribution of Property by Classes

PART II: THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOMES

• Chapter 4:
  European Incomes -- Shares of Labor and Capital
• Chapter 5:
  The Nation's Income -- Recent History of Wages
• Chapter 6:
  The Present Situation -- Distribution of Incomes by Classes

PART III: THE DISTRIBUTION OF TAXES

• Chapter 7:
  National Taxation -- Injustice of Indirect Taxes
• Chapter 8:
  Local Taxation -- Justice of the Property Tax

• Appendix
• Index