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Vilfredo Pareto: Sociological Writings

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Book by Pareto, Vilfredo

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

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Vilfredo Pareto

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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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349 reviews32 followers
September 25, 2011
Some of it was extremely interesting, some of it was nonsense. The circulation of elites is one of those obvious in retrospect ideas that really shift how you think about the world.
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April 5, 2019
En realidad, debido a que no aparece otra categoría u otra entrada para hablar de la versión de Alianza Editorial de las obras de Pareto que reciben similar nombre al título en inglés, a pesar de que desconozco si son los mismos extractos de las obras que leía en la versión española, vengo a expresar mi maravilla con el modo de pensar de Pareto. En medio de un mundo tan turbulento como el nuestro, la lectura de esta antología puede representar un faro para guiarse en medio de la oscuridad: el auge del "socialismo", el hedonismo y el humanitarismo pueden ser entendidos magníficamente con las teorías que planteara Pareto hace más de un siglo.

Su tratado más difícil, el referente a las acciones no lógicas, resulta algo superado frente a las concepción de Weber sobre acciones dirigidas por fines, y también por la imposibilidad de mostrar que un hecho social sea cien por ciento racional (al menos desde la visión que se tiene de la razón, producto de la Ilustración).

Si quiere cuestionar la manera en como el mundo es visto por la intelligentsia contemporánea, aventúrese a leer a Pareto.
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October 14, 2025
Pareto may have written the best book about societal workings group, behaviour, epistemology and theoratical history ever.
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