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Vilfredo Pareto

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July 15, 1848 in Paris, France

died

August 19, 1923

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Philosophy, Politics, Social Sciences

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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto, born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices.

He introduced the concept of Pareto efficiency and helped develop the field of microeconomics. He also was the first to discover that income follows a Pareto distribution, which is a power law probability distribution. The Pareto principle was named after him and built on observations of his such as that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. He also contributed to the fields of sociology and mathematics.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 16 ratings · 3 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Rise And Fall Of The Elites 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mind and Society: Trattato Di Sociologia Generale 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Transformation of Democracy 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984	My rating:
	Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sociological Writings 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mind and Society: Part Four: The General Form of Society by Vilfredo Pareto, Arthur Livingston (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Mind and Society: Part Two: Theory of Residues by Vilfredo Pareto, Kenneth Thompson (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Mind and Society by Vilfredo Pareto, Arthur Livingston, Andrew Bongiorno 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Mind and Society Part 4 by Vilfredo Pareto, Arthur Livingston (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Mind and Society Trattato Di Sociologia Generale (Volume 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
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“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”
― Vilfredo Pareto

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“Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.”
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