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Vilfredo Pareto This page has been left blank intentionally Vilfredo Pareto Beyond disciplinary Boundaries edited by JosePh V. femia University of Liverpool, UK and alasdair J. marshall University of Southampton, UK © Joseph V. femia and alasdair J. marshall 2012 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Joseph V. femia and alasdair J. marshall have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east suite 420 Union road 101 Cherry street farnham Burlington surrey, GU9 7Pt Vt 05401-4405 england Usa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Vilfredo Pareto : beyond disciplinary boundaries. 1. Pareto, Vilfredo, 1848-1923. 2. social sciences-- Philosophy. i. femia, Joseph V. ii. marshall, alasdair J. (alasdair James), 1968- 300.9'2-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data femia, Joseph V. Vilfredo Pareto : beyond disciplinary boundaries / by Joseph V. femia and alasdair J. marshall. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7995-0 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9977-4 (ebk) 1. Pareto, Vilfredo, 1848-1923. 2. economics--italy--history--19th century. 3. social sciences--italy--history--19th century. i. marshall, alasdair J. (alasdair James), 1968- ii. title. hB109.P3f46 2011 330.092--dc23 2011030809 ISBN 9780754679950 (hbk) ISBN 9780754699774 (ebk) IV Printed and bound in Great Britain by tJ international ltd, Padstow, Cornwall. Contents List of Figures vii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall 1 Pareto and the Elite 9 John Scott 2 Talents and Obstacles: Pareto’s Morphological Schema and Contemporary Social Stratification Research 21 François Nielsen 3 The Role of Sticking Points in Pareto’s Theory of Social Systems 47 Charles Powers 4 Pareto, Machiavelli, and the Critique of Ideal Political Theory 73 Joseph V. Femia 5 The Idea of a Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Insight from Pareto 85 Alasdair J. Marshall and Marco Guidi 6 Pareto’s Theory of Elite Cycles: A Reconsideration and Application 111 John Higley and Jan Pakulski 7 Pareto, Mill and the Cognitive Explanation of Collective Beliefs: Unnoticed “Middle-Range Theories” in the Trattato 131 Alban Bouvier 8 Pareto’s Rhetoric 153 Giorgio Baruchello vi Vilfredo Pareto 9 Pareto’s Manuscript on Money and the Real Economy 177 Michael McLure Index 199 List of Figures 2.1 Distribution of income 24 2.2 Pareto’s comparison of social mobility processes across strata within a society, and across different types of societies 28 2.3 Four concepts of the interaction of genes with environmental resources in socio-economic success 39 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Contributors Giorgio Baruchello was born in Genoa, Italy, but is an Icelandic citizen and serves as Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He read philosophy in Genoa and Reykjavík, Iceland, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Guelph, Canada. His publications encompass several different areas, especially social philosophy, theory of value, philosophy of science and the history of philosophy. Since 2005 he has edited Nordicum-Mediterraneum, the first Icelandic scholarly journal in Nordic and Mediterranean studies. Alban Bouvier works mainly in the philosophy of social science and theoretical sociology. Initially an Associate Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, he is currently a full Professor at the University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence. He is also Senior Fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod (Cognitive and Social Sciences) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. Professor Bouvier has also taught at the London School of Economics, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the LUISS (Roma) and the University of Lausanne. He is author of Pareto Aujourd’hui (1999, Presses Universitaires de France) and has written a substantial number of articles entirely or greatly devoted to Pareto’s thought. Joseph V. Femia is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Liverpool. He has published several books, including Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought since the French Revolution (2001, Oxford University Press), Machiavelli Revisited (2004, University of Wales Press), and Pareto and Political Theory (2006, Routledge). He has also published many academic articles, in journals such as Political Theory, Political Studies, and The British Journal of Political Science. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale and Princeton Universities, and a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence. Marco G.D. Guidi is Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow. He has previously taught at Glasgow Caledonian University and at the Graduate Business School within the University of Strathclyde. His scholarly publications include two that deal with Pareto: ‘Successfully reshaping the ownership relationship by reducing “moral debt” and justly distributing residual claims: The cases from Scott Bader Commonwealth and the John Lewis Partnership’ (2010, Critical Perspectives on Accounting) and ‘Maximizing the firm’s value to society through
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