Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto

Sociology is Study of Non-logical Actions

Life

economics is the study of repeated logical actions

* July 15, 1848, Paris

Father exiled Italian engineer, French mother

two observable aspects of non-logical actions

- actions themselves

- reasonings used to explain/justify actions

Economist, political theorist and „a non-marxist sociologist“

Education in both France and Italy; a degree in engineering at the Istituto Politecnico of Turin (one of the best in his class)

Anastasia Margaritopulu

Kristýna Jamnická

Relationship of actions (A) and

derivations (D) with residues (O)

A civil engineer: state-owned Italian railway company and later in private industry

Relationship of actions (A) and derivations (D) with residues (O)

1889: marriage with Dina Bakunin (12 years of marriage)

Jane Régis: second wife (till the end)

Interest in the political life of his country: lectures, journals, articles, politician

1893: Professor of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

Known as „The Karl Marx of the Bourgeoisie

Economy: Manual of Political Economy,  Les Systèmes socialistes

Sociology: Treatise on General Sociology, The Rise and Fall of the Elites, The Transformation of Democracy

† August 19, 1923, Switzerland

Man of two faces

What are residues?

Difficulties in working under any kind of supervision

Irritated and offended people around him

Stubborn in his views and disdainful of those with divergent opinions, harsh and sarcastic

BUT ALSO offered money, shelter, and counsel to political exiles

always ready to take up his pen in defense of the poor or to denounce corruption in government

1. instinct of combinations

2. persistence of aggregates

3. need to manifest sentiments by external acts

4. residues related to sociability

5. integrity of individual & dependents

6. sexual residuals

What are derivations?

affirmation, authority, agreement with sentiments or principles, verbal proof

Vilfredo Pareto

Influence

Social structure

What is the elite?

When low-quality elements accumulate in elite ..

CAPABILITIES

Sources

nominal elite accumulates elements who do not have qualities

required to maintain themselves in power

Influenced by: Niccolò Machiavelli, Maffeo Pantaleoni,

Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer

revolution takes place

Jiří Buriánek, Sociologie pro střední školy, vydavatelství Fortuna, 2008

score individuals in each branch of human activity

on a scale from 0 to 10

rating success of lawyers, poets, women in seducing powerful men, etc.

typically led by disaffected members of old elite

Thank you for your attention

ress.revues.org - Vilfredo Pareto

Influenced:

Economics: Italians as Barone, Pietri-Tonelli, Pantaleoni,

Amoroso, Demaria, and Fossati Hicks, Hotelling, Lange,

Lerner, Samuelson, Koopmans, Dorfman, Arrow

once revolution succeeds

-victorious revolutionary leaders become the new elite

- start oppressing non-elite in their turn

regular shape of distribution of income in societies

- developing mathematical formula for this distribution

- individuals move up & down within this structure; social mobility corresponds to selection process

- elites too circulate, aristocracies do not last

-elite replacement occurs slowly or through violent revolution

This cycle will not end; revolution are always led by new elites

top scorers are the elite

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Pareto.html

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n5p10_Alexander.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Vilfredo_Pareto.html