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- Title
Pareto's Trattato di Sociologia Generale: a behaviourist ante litteram approach.
- Authors
Marchionatti, Roberto; Mornati, Fiorenzo
- Abstract
The paper deals with the changing relationship between economics and sociology in Pareto's thought and suggests a new interpretation of this relationship. Pareto's opus magnum in the field, the Trattato di Sociologia Generale (1916, French ed. 1917), is usually considered the result of the abandonment of economics by the late Pareto in favour of another field of interest, sociology—the realm of the analysis of non-rational actions—and on the basis of this interpretation it has been largely neglected by economists. This paper maintains that the sociology of the Trattato has to be considered not as an abandonment of interest in economics, but rather as a programme for the reconstruction and transformation of economics in a perspective that today could be called 'behaviourist'.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC sociology; ECONOMISTS; SOCIOLOGY
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2021, Vol 45, Issue 2, p353
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/beaa044