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Vilfredo Pareto
Beyond disciplinary Boundaries
edited by
JosePh V. femia
University of Liverpool, UK
and
alasdair J. marshall
University of Southampton, UK
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Vilfredo Pareto : beyond disciplinary boundaries.
1. Pareto, Vilfredo, 1848-1923. 2. social sciences--
Philosophy.
i. femia, Joseph V. ii. marshall, alasdair J. (alasdair
James), 1968-
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femia, Joseph V.
Vilfredo Pareto : beyond disciplinary boundaries / by Joseph V. femia and
alasdair J. marshall.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7995-0 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9977-4 (ebk)
1. Pareto, Vilfredo, 1848-1923. 2.
economics--italy--history--19th century. 3. social
sciences--italy--history--19th century. i. marshall, alasdair J. (alasdair
James), 1968- ii. title.
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall
1 Pareto and the Elite 9
John Scott
2 Talents and Obstacles:
Pareto’s Morphological Schema and Contemporary Social
Stratification Research 21
François Nielsen
3 The Role of Sticking Points in Pareto’s Theory of Social Systems 47
Charles Powers
4 Pareto, Machiavelli, and the Critique of Ideal Political Theory 73
Joseph V. Femia
5 The Idea of a Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty:
Insight from Pareto 85
Alasdair J. Marshall and Marco Guidi
6 Pareto’s Theory of Elite Cycles:
A Reconsideration and Application 111
John Higley and Jan Pakulski
7 Pareto, Mill and the Cognitive Explanation of Collective Beliefs:
Unnoticed “Middle-Range Theories” in the Trattato 131
Alban Bouvier
8 Pareto’s Rhetoric 153
Giorgio Baruchello
vi Vilfredo Pareto
9 Pareto’s Manuscript on Money and the Real Economy 177
Michael McLure
Index 199
List of Figures
2.1 Distribution of income 24
2.2 Pareto’s comparison of social mobility processes across strata
within a society, and across different types of societies 28
2.3 Four concepts of the interaction of genes with environmental
resources in socio-economic success 39
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List of Contributors
Giorgio Baruchello was born in Genoa, Italy, but is an Icelandic citizen and serves
as Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of
the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He read philosophy in Genoa and Reykjavík,
Iceland, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Guelph, Canada.
His publications encompass several different areas, especially social philosophy,
theory of value, philosophy of science and the history of philosophy. Since 2005
he has edited Nordicum-Mediterraneum, the first Icelandic scholarly journal in
Nordic and Mediterranean studies.
Alban Bouvier works mainly in the philosophy of social science and theoretical
sociology. Initially an Associate Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, he is currently a
full Professor at the University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence. He is also Senior
Fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod (Cognitive and Social Sciences) and the Ecole
Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. Professor Bouvier has also taught at the London
School of Economics, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the LUISS
(Roma) and the University of Lausanne. He is author of Pareto Aujourd’hui (1999,
Presses Universitaires de France) and has written a substantial number of articles
entirely or greatly devoted to Pareto’s thought.
Joseph V. Femia is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University
of Liverpool. He has published several books, including Against the Masses:
Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought since the French Revolution (2001, Oxford
University Press), Machiavelli Revisited (2004, University of Wales Press), and
Pareto and Political Theory (2006, Routledge). He has also published many
academic articles, in journals such as Political Theory, Political Studies, and
The British Journal of Political Science. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale
and Princeton Universities, and a Visiting Professor at the European University
Institute in Florence.
Marco G.D. Guidi is Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow. He has
previously taught at Glasgow Caledonian University and at the Graduate Business
School within the University of Strathclyde. His scholarly publications include
two that deal with Pareto: ‘Successfully reshaping the ownership relationship
by reducing “moral debt” and justly distributing residual claims: The cases from
Scott Bader Commonwealth and the John Lewis Partnership’ (2010, Critical
Perspectives on Accounting) and ‘Maximizing the firm’s value to society through
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