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CONTENTS.
  1. Chapter XV. Of Profits.
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  3. § 1.
    Profits resolvable into three parts; interest, insurance, and wages of superintendence
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    495
  4. 2.
    The minimum of profits; and the variations to which it is liable
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    498
  5. 3.
    Differences of profits arising from the nature of the particular employment
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    500
  6. 4.
    General tendency of profits to an equality
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    502
  7. 5.
    Profits do not depend on prices, nor on purchase and sale
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    508
  8. 6.
    The advances of the capitalist consist ultimately in wages of labour
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    510
  9. 7.
    The rate of profit depends on the Cost of Labour
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    512
  10. Chapter XVI. Of Rent.
  11. § 1.
    Rent the effect of a natural monopoly
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    516
  12. 2.
    No land can pay rent except land of such quality or situation, as exists in less quantity than the demand
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    517
  13. 3.
    The rent of land consists of the excess of its return above the return to the worst land in cultivation
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    519
  14. 4.
    —or to the capital employed in the least advantageous circumstances
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    522
  15. 5.
    Is payment for capital sunk in the soil, rent, or profit?
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    525
  16. 6.
    Rent does not enter into the cost of production of agricultural produce
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    530
  17. BOOK III. EXCHANGE. Chapter I. Of Value.
  18. § 1.
    Preliminary remarks
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    535
  19. 2.
    Definitions of Value in Use, Exchange Value, and Price
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    537
  20. 3.
    What is meant by general purchasing power
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    538
  21. 4.
    Value a relative term. A general rise or fall of values a contradiction
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    540
  22. 5.
    The laws of Value, how modified in their application to retail transactions
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    541