Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology of a Ruling Class in Decline

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Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One list even ranked it among the hundred most influential books ever written in Western history. Pareto’s Treatise first appeared in French between 1917 and 1919, with a second and final Italian edition in 1923. During the […]

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Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One list even ranked it among the hundred most influential books ever written in Western history. Pareto’s Treatise first appeared in French between 1917 and 1919, with a second and final Italian edition in 1923. During the […]