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Title: Rural Health and Welfare

Author: George Thompson Fairchild

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Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RURAL HEALTH AND WELFARE***

The Rural Science Series

Edited by L. H. Bailey

Rural Wealth and Welfare

Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life

By

Geo. T. Fairchild, LL.D.

New York

The MacMillan Company

London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

1900

CONTENTS

Dedication
Preface.
Introduction. General Welfare.
Part I. Productive Industries: Analysis of Aims, Forces, Means and
Methods.
Chapter I. Aims Of Industry.
Chapter II. Forces In Production Of Wealth.
Chapter III. Labor Defined And Classified.
Chapter IV. Capital Defined And Classified.
Chapter V. Personal Attainments.
Chapter VI. Combination Of Forces For Individual Efficiency.
Chapter VII. Methods Of Association.
Chapter VIII. Exchange: Advantages, Limitations And Tendencies.
Chapter IX. Value The Basis Of Exchange.
Chapter X. Exchange--Its Machinery.
Chapter XI. Banks And Banking.
Chapter XII. Deferred Settlement And Credit Expansion.
Chapter XIII. Technical Division Of Labor.
Chapter XIV. Aggregation Of Industry.
Chapter XV. Special Incentives To Production.
Chapter XVI. Business Security.
Part II. Distribution of Wealth for Welfare.
Chapter XVII. General Principles Of Fair Distribution.
Chapter XVIII. Wages And Profits.
Chapter XIX. Conflict Between Wage-Earners And Profit-Makers.
Chapter XX. Proceeds Of Capital: Interest And Rent.
Chapter XXI. Principles Of Interest.
Chapter XXII. Principles Of Land Rent.
Part III. Consumption of Wealth.
Chapter XXIII. Wealth Used By Individuals.
Chapter XXIV. Prudent Consumption