This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the war and post-war events.

Autorentext
Fiorenzo Mornati is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. His research interests include history of contemporary economic thought and contemporary economic history.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: A new pure economics.- Chapter 2: Arguments in applied economics.- Chapter 3: The definitive abandonment of liberal political activism.- Chapter 4: The advance of Socialism and the obstacles impeding it.- Chapter 5: A new sociology.- Chapter 6: The war seen from Céligny.- Chapter 7: The post-war period.- Chapter 8: The final phase of Paretology during Pareto's lifetime.