Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)

Brief Bio

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a radical Franco-Italian free market economist and sociologist who was much influenced by Frédéric Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari.

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No. Title Page Author The Work Year Discipline Collection
1 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Application of Sociological Theories (1900, 2025)
Vilfredo Pareto, An Application of Sociological Theories. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
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Editor's Note: A translation of Vilfredo Pareto, “Un’ applicazione di teorie sociologiche,” Rivista Italiana di sociologia, (Luglio 1900), p. 401-45. See the original Italian version in facs. PDF and HTML.
 1900 Sociology Translation
2 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Applicazione di teorie sociologiche (1900)
Vilfredo Pareto, “Un’applicazione di teorie sociologiche,” Rivista Italiana di sociologia, (Luglio 1900), pp. 402-456.
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Editor's Note: See my translation "An Application of Sociological Theories" (2025) in HTML. Translated earlier as The Rise and Fall of the Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology. Introduction by Hans L. Zetterberg (Totowa, New Jersey: The Bedminster Press, 1968).
 1900 Sociology —
3 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Fatti e Teorie (1920)
Vilfredo Pareto, Fatti e Teorie (Firenze: Vallecchi, 1920).
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 1920 Political Thought —
4 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Systèmes socialistes (1902-3)
Vilfredo Pareto, Les systèmes socialistes. Cours professé à l'université de Laussanne. Tome premier (Paris: V. Giard, 1902). Tome second (1903).
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Editor's Note: This is a two volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML. It is also available in a Multi-Pane Reader.
 1902 Economics; Political Thought Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers
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Traité de sociologie générale (1917-19)
Vilfredo Pareto, Traité de sociologie générale. Édition française par Pierre Boven. Revue par l’auteur. Volume I (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1917). Volume II (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1919).
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Editor's Note: This is a two volume work with volume 1 appearing in 1917 and volume 2 in 1919. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a “2 volumes in 1” version in HTML. See also the MultiPane version.
 1917 Sociology Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers
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Trasformazione della democrazia (1923)
Vilfredo Pareto, Trasformazione della democrazia (Milano: Studio Editoriale Corbaccio, 1921).
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Editor's Note: An English translation was published in 2017: Vilfredo Pareto, The Transformation of Democracy. Charles H. Powers. editor. Renata Girola, translator. (Routledge 2017. 1st published by Transaction Publishers).
 1921 Political Thought —