Pareto made mathematics and statistics an indispensable part of research in economics. His inspiration was the goal of making the humanities more scientific. He worked so hard that a story is told about his first wife, Alessandrina Bakunin. She complained he was too busy to talk with her, and so she had to meow with the cats. She finally ran off with the cook (1901). We do not know what the cats thought of this but Vilfredo Pareto was furious.
July 15, 2020
July 15, 1848
Vilfredo Pareto (July 15, 1848 to August 19, 1923) is not forgotten today, due to his theorizing about economics, though some of his views are now unfashionable. His first book was Cours d'Économie Politique of which the first volume was published in 1896.
Pareto made mathematics and statistics an indispensable part of research in economics. His inspiration was the goal of making the humanities more scientific. He worked so hard that a story is told about his first wife, Alessandrina Bakunin. She complained he was too busy to talk with her, and so she had to meow with the cats. She finally ran off with the cook (1901). We do not know what the cats thought of this but Vilfredo Pareto was furious.
Renato Cirillo's The Economics of Vilfredo Pareto, (1978) is a very sympathetic treatment of this basically 19th century thinker.
Pareto made mathematics and statistics an indispensable part of research in economics. His inspiration was the goal of making the humanities more scientific. He worked so hard that a story is told about his first wife, Alessandrina Bakunin. She complained he was too busy to talk with her, and so she had to meow with the cats. She finally ran off with the cook (1901). We do not know what the cats thought of this but Vilfredo Pareto was furious.
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