Frezza, Giampaolo; Parisi, Francesco --- "Achille Loria (1857-1943)" [1999] ELECD 42; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781858985169

Section: Chapter 35

Section Title: Achille Loria (1857-1943)

Author(s): Frezza, Giampaolo; Parisi, Francesco

Number of pages: 11

Extract:

35 Achille Loria (1857-1943)
Giampaolo Frezza and Francesco Parisi


Introduction
Achille Loria was born in Mantua (Italy) in 1857 and died on 6 November
1943 in Luserna, Turin. In a posthumous note by the Italian economist
August0 Graziani, the Commemorazione del Socio Achille Loria (Commemo-
ration of the Fellow Achille Loria), published in 1949 by the National Academy
of the Lincei, Achille Loria is described as a `Sovereign of Science', whose
entire life was dedicated to effective and tireless investigation of truth, a
search which continued throughout his old age. He never touched any prob-
lem without deeply probing it. His wide knowledge of fact and theory is truly
comparable to John Stuart Mill's, especially for the power, ingenuity, recep-
tive spirit and acceptance of new truths, including those from other disciplines,
and from the confutation of mistake and renewed sophism in the social
sciences.
Achille Loria started generating his scientific work at the age of
twenty-two with a monograph that captured the attention of Italian and
foreign academics for its vast critical references, originality of thought,
and depth of examination. This was La Rendita fondiaria e la sua elisione
naturale (Income from Property and its Natural Annulment) Milan: Hoelpi,
1880. His ample scientific work is concentrated in the following research
areas:

Economic studies
Loria's economic studies are remarkable in the Analisi della proprietci
capitalista (Analysis of Capitalist Property), Turin, 1899; Le leggi di
popolazione e il sistema sociale (The Laws of Population and the Social
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