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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Pareto Introduction: Vilfredo Today -- 2 Reasons as Causes - Vilfredo Pareto on Rationality and Irrationality in Action -- 3 Cultural Intelligence in Liberal Elite Institutions: What We Can Learn from Pareto -- 4 Pareto's Political Economy before Ophelimity -- 5 Convergence of Opposites? Reflections on Vilfredo Pareto and Werner Sombart -- 6 Elites and Democracy: Vilfredo Pareto for Social and Political Sciences, 100 Years Later -- 7 Liberalism, Democracy and the Theory of the Elite in Pareto's System -- 8 Authoritarianism, Liberalism, and the Benefit of Truth -- 9 "A New Edifice of Theory on the Ruins of Fallen Positivism" Vilfredo Pareto on Talcott Parsons' Course toward a General Theory of Action -- 10 Carl Friedrich and the Cancellation of Pareto -- 11 Pareto on Violence -- 12 Pareto: Tragic Scientific Ironist or Anti-Democratic Scrouge? -- Index.

This volume seeks to restore Vilfredo Pareto to his rightful place in the history of social and economic thought, assessing his many contributions to the social sciences, while exploring both his continuing relevance to social research and the influence of his thought on subsequent developments in sociology and social theory.