Publisher's Synopsis
Achille Loria (1857-1943) was an Italian political economist. Loria developed an original, deterministic theory of economic development based on the premise that the relative scarcity of land leads to the subjugation of some members of society by others, a mechanism that works differently in different stages of development. Loria was one of the earliest critics of Marx's ideas, and as such his views were ridiculed by Engels.
