Hermann von Schullern zu Schrattenhofen · 1893
Schullern’s brief review examines Masè-Dari’s inaugural lecture, L’economia politica e le riforme nella proprietà della terra. After recalling the economist’s earlier work on intensive cultivation and land rent, it identifies the lecture’s governing premise:
Masè-Dari erkennt im Bodeneigenthum das Grundphänomen der Wirtschaft und der ganzen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung.
English translation: Masè-Dari recognizes in landed property the fundamental phenomenon of the economy and of the whole of social development.
Schullern contrasts this position with an economics that places human beings at its centre. Making landed property foundational, he suggests, opens important new perspectives on private ownership of land. The review then locates Masè-Dari’s argument in relation to Loria:
Der Autor hebt insbesondere Lorias Lehre mit feurigem Lobe hervor.
English translation: The author singles out Loria's doctrine in particular with fiery praise.
This enthusiasm does not preclude criticism: Masè-Dari questions Loria’s treatment and extends his scrutiny to competing approaches. Schullern reads the lecture’s conclusion as promising a more satisfactory resolution of human claims to landed property than those offered by the classical and “heterodox” schools or, especially, the socialists. He reports that ambition without supplying a solution absent from the lecture.
Das Schriftchen wird eine Spannung erweckende Einleitung für das Werk bilden, das uns der Autor, wie wir mit ihm hoffen wollen, noch schenken wird.
English translation: The little writing will form an introduction that arouses suspense for the work which the author, as we will hope with him, is still to bestow upon us.
The closing hope makes the assessment provisional. The lecture’s significance lies in its conceptual reorientation of the property question and the research it promises, rather than in a reform programme the review can already evaluate.
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