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Vilfredo Pareto

1848 - 1923

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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (; Italian: [paˈreːto]; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices, and was one of the 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vilfredo Pareto is the 10th most popular economist (down from 9th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from France (down from 181st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Economist.

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist who is most famous for the Pareto Principle. The Pareto Principle states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the input.

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Among economists, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 10 out of 414. Before him are David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, and Frédéric Passy. After him are Milton Friedman, François Quesnay, Joseph Schumpeter, Mario Draghi, George Shultz, and Alfred Marshall.

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Among people born in 1848, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 3. Before him are Paul Gauguin, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are Gottlob Frege, Raja Ravi Varma, Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Among people deceased in 1923, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Gustave Eiffel, and Sarah Bernhardt. After him are Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover.

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In France

Among people born in France, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 244 out of 6,770. Before him are Frédéric Mistral (1830), Louis X of France (1289), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Seurat (1859), Bernard Arnault (1949), and Léon Foucault (1819). After him are George Sand (1804), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Berthe Morisot (1841), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), and Camille Claudel (1864).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 2. Before him are Frédéric Passy (1822). After him are François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).

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