• Examines Pareto's role in teaching political economy and other issues of applied political economy• Reviews Pareto's early contributions to pure economics, welfare, equilibrium theory, monetary circulation, sociological-ideological thought, income law and private property• Analyses the first critical success of Pareto

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: Relations between Pareto and the University of Lausanne.- Chapter 2: Pareto as a critical observer of the Italian and Swiss political scenes.- Chapter 3: Pure economics.- Chapter 4: General economic equilibrium.- Chapter 5: The economics of welfare.- Chapter 6: From free-trade propaganda to the theory of international trade.- Chapter 7: The money.- Chapter 8: Other topics in applied economics.- Chapter 9: The economic theory of socialism.- Chapter 10: The law of income distribution and various statistical complements.- Chapter 11: Initial development of a new sociology.- Chapter 12: Further general reflections on politics.- Chapter 13: Early critical reactions to Pareto.