The Wonderful Wealth Machine
Phil Grant
[1953]
- Chapters 1-7
1 - Man, The Muddleheaded Genius
2 - Who is Injured by Poverty
3 - Who is in Favor of Poverty
4 - Who Cares About Poverty
5 - The Life and Death of Political Economy
6 - Human Nature the Foundation of Poleco
7 - to Reason is Part of Man's Nature
- Chapters 8-11
8 - The More Man Gets, the More He Wants
9 - Man Does Things the Easy Way
10 - More "Knowledge" With Less Effort
11 - Why Definitions are Important
- Chapters 12-25
12 - The Meaning of Land
13 - The Meaning of Labor
14 - Different Kinds of Labor
15 - Beggars and Robbers Compared
16 - Gambling A Form of Labor
17 - What Wealth Isn't
18 - What Wealth Is
19 - The Stockpile of Wealth
20 - Wealth Must Satisfy Human Desires
21 - Valuable Things Aren't Always Wealth
22 - The Rich Man Isn't Wealthy
23 - Production
24 - Nothing is Produced by One Industry
25 - Truck Drivers and Smugglers Produce Silken Lingerie
- Chapters 26-33
26 - The Nature of Capital
27 - Wealth-Earning Wealth is Not Capital
28 - All Wealth is not Capital
29 - Three Kinds of Capital
30 - All Surplus Wealth Isn't Capital
31 - When Capital Is Used
32 - "Poor" Countries Do Not Lack Capital
33 - Capital Doesn't Compete With Labor
- Chapters 34-38
34 - Capital at Work
35 - Labor Employs Capital and Exploits It
36 - The Meaning of Distribution
37 - Why Tom, Dick and Harry Can't Agree
38 - The Three Little Men
- Chapters 39-44
39 - The Meaning of Capitalist
40 - A Particular Man Isn't Mankind
41 - Measuring the Immeasurable
42 - Ricardo's Law of Rent
43 - Population Produces Rent
44 - The Meaningful Margin
- Chapters 45-49
45- The Margin at Work in the City
46 - Contract Rent Based on Economic Rent
47 - The Margin Related to the High Cost of Living
48 - The Margin During Good Times and Bad
49 - To Buy Land is to Pay Rent in Advance
- Chapters 50-62
50 - Interest
51- Labor-Saving Capital Helps Add Wages to Stockpile
52 - Live Capital Produces Interest
53 - Why Money is Loaned Out
54 - Why a Premium is Paid for the Use of Money
55 - How Earnings of all Industry Level Off
56 - Rate of Interest
57 - Wages
58 - Wages of Hired and Self-Employed Labor the Same
59 - The Hired Laborer Produces his own Wages
60 - Supply and Demand Doesn't Determine Wages
61 - What is This Stuff Called Wages?
62 - The Parts and the Whole
- Chapters 63-66
63 - The Wonderful Wealth Machine
64 - Difference Between Economics and Poleco
65 - Natural Laws and Man-Made Laws Compared
66 - the Nature of Natural Laws
- Chapters 67-73
67 - The Land-to-Labor Pipe
68 - Land Speculation
69 - How Land Speculation Affects our Economic System
70 - Depressions
71 - The Foundation of Land Speculation
72 - Landowners Not Necessarily People
73 - Landownership Related to Poverty
- Chapters 74-79
74 - Natural Rights
75 - Landownership Versus the Lease
76 - Man's Natural Right to the Use of Land
77 - Monopoly
78 - Underprivilege A Reflection of Special Privilege
79 - Landownership and Slavery
- Chapters 80-92
80 - How Slaves Are Made
81 - How Free Land Frees Slaves
82 - Slavery in America
83 - The Cord that Binds Slavery and Private Ownership
84 - Freedom Impossible Where Land is Privately Owned
85 - Free Land
86 - To Own Land is to Hold Power to Collect Rent and Taxes
87 - Two Guys Named Gus Sell Protection
88 - Taxpayers are Made -- Not Born
89 - The Stupidity of Taxation
90 - The Injustice of Taxation
91 - Rent -- Is it Good or Evil?
92 - Taxes and Rent Reduce Consuemrs' Buying Power
- Chapters 93-99
93 - Society's Claim to Rent
94 - Special Privileges Aren't Surrendered Willingly
95 - The Politician is a Loyal Servant
96 - School Teachers Don't Step on Important Toes
97 - Bloody and Bloodless Methods of Abolishing Land-Ownership
98 - How to Collect Land Rents
99 - Dirty Work on the Side Streets
- Chapters 100-108
100 - Taxation Unnecessary
101 - Results of Collecting Land Rents
102 - How Land-Rent Collection Steps up Prosperity
103 - Crime, An Economic Creation
104 - Unions
105 - The Road to Free Enterprise
106 - Building One World
107 - The Capitalist's Last Ditch
108 - Fighting Socialism
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