PARETO, Vilfredo.

£9,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Cours d'Économie Politique. First edition of Pareto's first major work, including an exposition of "Pareto's Principle", that 80 percent of results come from 20 percent of causes."Pareto's aim in the Cours was 'to provide an outline of economic science considered as a natural science based exclusively on facts'... The outstanding feature of the Cours is the way it combines theoretical analysis with discussion of a large amount of statistical and factual material and the use (mainly in notes) of mathematical techniques" (IESS).

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