Principles of Political Economy with Applications to Social Philosophy (1848) - Page 16


§ 1.	Doctrine of Adam Smith on the competition of capital	285
2.	Doctrine of Mr. Wakefield respecting the field of employment	287
3.	What determines the minimum rate of profit	289
4.	In opulent countries, profits are habitually near the minimum	292
5.	Prevented from reaching it by commercial revulsions	296
6.	Prevented by improvements in production	298
7.	Prevented by the importation of cheap necessities and instruments	300
8.	Prevented by the emigration of capital	302


§ 1.	The withdrawal of capital is not necessarily a national loss	304
2.	In opulent countries, the extension of machinery is not detrimental, but beneficial to laborers	307


§ 1.	The stationary state of wealth and population is dreaded and deprecated by writers	311
2.	But it is not in itself undesirable	313


§ 1.	The theory of dependence and protection is no longer applicable to the condition of modern society	318
2.	The future well-being of the laboring classes is principally dependent on their own mental cultivation	323
3.	Probable effects of improved intelligence in causing a better adjustment of population; this would be promoted by the social independence of women	326
4.	Tendency of society toward the disuse of the relation of hiring and service	327
5.	Examples of the association of laborers in the profits of industrial undertakings	329
6.	Probable future development of this principle	337