ABSTRACT
The general ideas with regard to the modern distribution of income which underlie the arguments of most social revolutionaries have been mainly derived from theorists who either neglected, as Henry George did, statistical methods altogether. In each of these countries statisticians, using independent methods, have been endeavouring to ascertain with as much correctness as possible what the distribution of incomes in that particular country is. In each case large use has been made of the method of estimates, yet when the general results of these various computations are compared, the main features of distribution in any one of these countries are found to be almost identical with its features in all the rest. The fact that out of the productive activity of each of these two populations a scheme of distribution arises which is in its main features nearly. Still less will it account for a certain peculiar change in the manner in which wages of unequal amounts are distributed.
