Hermann von Schullern zu Schrattenhofen · 1900
Hermann von Schullern zu Schrattenhofen’s 1900 review of Romolo Broglio d’Ajano’s Il salario nella teoria e nella pratica assesses a history of wage theories through its connection of economic thought to social conditions. He identifies the book’s purpose precisely:
Der Verfasser will die zu verschiedenen Zeiten herrschenden Anschauungen über den Arbeitslohn und ihre Entstehung aus den Thatsachen des sozialen Lebens untersuchen.
English translation: The author intends to investigate the views on wages that have prevailed at various times and their emergence out of the facts of social life.
Schullern praises the careful, consistent explanation of theories through actual circumstances, calling this a modern approach to the history of doctrine while noting its incomplete coverage of the literature. Its principal evidentiary setting is England:
Dabei ist es vor allem England, das ihm litterar- und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Daten bietet.
English translation: In this it is above all England that furnishes him with data from literary and economic history.
The review then outlines two parts: English classical wage theories, followed by writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. English authors again predominate; German, French, and Italian names appear only sporadically. Declining detailed discussion, Schullern offers a compact methodological endorsement qualified by limits of coverage. The review’s significance lies in its favorable assessment of a socially grounded history of economic ideas, rather than in adjudicating particular wage theories.
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