Pareto

[ pah-re-taw ]

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noun

Vil·fre·do [veel-, fre, -daw], 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.

Pareto

/ paˈrɛːto /

ParetoVilfredo18481923MItalianSOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologistSOCIAL SCIENCE: economist Vilfredo (vilˈfreːdo). 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist. He anticipated Fascist principles of government in his Mind and Society (1916)
modifier denoting a law, mathematical formula, etc, originally used by Pareto to express the frequency distribution of incomes in a society

Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.

In this work the researches of Italian writers, such as Pantaleoni and Pareto, are of conspicuous importance.

Now no quantity of value, irrespective of the particular holder of the good, emerges for Pareto.

The extreme abstraction of the utility school is made very clear by Pareto, op.

Mazzini hid in the house of the Marquis Pareto, and was undiscovered, although the police made a prolonged search for him.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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