ABSTRACT
It is a remarkable thing that it should be just small farming agriculture which has been placed under a regime serving the requirements of economic security, and built upon coercion and direction, still more remarkable that at least in its milder earlier forms it was the result of pressure from the farmers themselves; but most remarkable of all is the fact that all this appears strange to hardly anybody. Professor von Dietze begins with the very proper observation that for the first three quarters of the nineteenth century the European farmers were in fact decided supporters of economic Liberalism and that during this period European agriculture had experienced times of the greatest prosperity. As regards the post war future one cannot sufficiently underline the vigour with which the German expert and observer demonstrated the well-balanced competitive system as the sole principle for a resuscitation of economic life as a whole and for agriculture in particular.
