Vilfredo Pareto
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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made several important contribu
Pareto in the 1870s
Compendio di sociologia generale, 1920
Elite theory
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In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state that seeks to describe and explain power relations in society. In its contemporary form in the 21st century, elite
Vilfredo Pareto
…minds behind the Lausanne School of economics. He was also responsible for popularising the use of the term elite in social analysis and contributed to elite theory. He has been described as "one of the last Renaissance scholars. Trained in physics and mathematics, he became a polymath whose genius radiated into…
C. Wright Mills (left) and his assistant, Saul Landau (right)
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