Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology grace empirical minds

empirical minds

and undertook seven detailed country studies

Riches compares how Jewish and Christian communities have interpreted the same passage of the Bible

It argues that receipt of a parish pension was only the final (and by no means the inevitable) stage in a protracted process of negotiation between prospective pensioners (or 'collectioners'

Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology grace empirical mindsVilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of Pareto's psychologistic approach both within the history of Italian thought and within