| Economic |
By G. Bernard Shaw. |
| Rent. The Cultivation and Population of the Earth.—Economic Origin of the County Family.—Economic Rent of Land and Ability.—Tenant Right.—The Advent of the Proletarian. |
Page 3. |
| Value. Mechanism of Exchange.—Price and Utility.—Effects of Supply.—Law of Indifference.—Total and Final Utility.—Relation of Value to Cost of Production. |
Page 12. |
| Wages. The Proletariat.—Sale of Labor.—Subsistence Wage.—Capitalism.—Increase of Riches and Decrease of Wealth.—Divorce of Exchange Value from Social Utility. |
Page 18. |
| Conclusion. Apparent Discrepancies between History and Theory.—Socialism.—Pessimism and Private Property.—Economic Soundness of Meliorism. |
Page 23. |
| Historic |
By Sidney Webb, LL.B., Barrister at Law, Lecturer on Political Economy at the City of London College. |
| The Development of the Democratic Ideal. Ancestry of English Socialism.—The Utopians.—Introduction of the Conception of Evolution.—The Lesson of Democracy. |
Page 30. |
| The Disintegration of the Old Synthesis. The Decay of Medievalism.—The Industrial Revolution.—The French Revolution.—-The Progress of Democracy. |
Page 35. |
| The Period of Anarchy. Individualism.—Philosophic Radicalism and Laisser-faire.—The Utilitarian Analysis. |
Page 40. |
| The Intellectual and Moral Revolt; and its Political Outcome. The Poets, Communists, Philosophers, Christian Socialists, and Evolutionists.—The Extension of State Activity.—Existing State Registration, Inspection, And Direct Organization of Labor.—The Radical Programme. |
Page 45.page vi.gif) |
| The New Synthesis. Evolution and the Social Organism.—Liberty and Equality.—Social Health. |
Page 56. |
| Industrial |
By William Clarke, M.A., Cambridge. |
| The Supersession of Individualist Production. The Cottage Industry.—The Mechanical Inventions.—The Factory System. |
Page 62. |
| The Growth of the Great Industry. The Expansion of Lancashire.—The White Slavery.—State Interference. |
Page 71. |
| The Development of the World-Commerce. The Triumph of Free Trade.—The Fight for New Markets.—The Carriers of the World. |
Page 78. |
| The Differentiation of Manager and Capitalist. The Rise of Co-peration and the Joint Stock Company.—The "Ring" and the "Trust".—The Despotism of Capitalist Communism. |
Page 83. |
| Moral |
By Sydney Olivier, B.A., Oxford. |
| The Evolution of Morality. The Common End.—The Conditions of Freedom.—The Individual and the Race.—The Growth of Social Consciousness.—Convention and Law. |
Page 102. |
| Property and Morals. The Reaction of Property-Forms on Moral Ideas.—Class Morality.—Negation of the Conditions of Freedom.—Social Dissolution. |
Page 114. |
| The Re-integration of Society. The Ordering of the Primary Conditions.—The Idea of the Poor Law.—Secondary Conditions.—Morality and Reason.—The Idea of the School. |
Page 123. |
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