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Vilfredo Pareto

1848 - 1923

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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilfredo Pareto has received more than 1,465,285 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Vilfredo Pareto is the 9th most popular economist, the 181st most popular biography from France (up from 195th in 2019) and the 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

Among economists, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 9 out of 414. Before him are John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. After him are Joseph Schumpeter, Frédéric Passy, Alfred Marshall, François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, and Klaus Schwab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 3. Before him are Paul Gauguin, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are Gottlob Frege, Otto Lilienthal, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Hugo de Vries. 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, John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, and Joaquín Sorolla.

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In France

Among people born in France, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 181 out of 6,770. Before him are Annie Ernaux (1940), Louis VII of France (1120), Bernadette Soubirous (1844), Louis VIII of France (1187), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), and Francis II of France (1544). After him are Georges Seurat (1859), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), Louis Daguerre (1787), Henri Rousseau (1844), Pope Clement VI (1291), and Louis X of France (1289).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Vilfredo Pareto ranks 1. After him are Frédéric Passy (1822), François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Jacques Delors (1925), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), and Gérard Debreu (1921).

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