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Pareto as an Economist

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It is remarkable that as recently as 1968, Allais in his survey of the contributions of Vilfredo Pareto was able to say that: ‘His influence on the development of economics as a science was felt only after considerable delay and has largely been confined to Italy and France.’

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Kirman, A.P. (2018). Pareto as an Economist. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1368

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