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The Definitive Abandonment of Liberal Political Activism

In: Vilfredo Pareto: An Intellectual Biography Volume III

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  • Fiorenzo Mornati

    (University of Turin)

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In the last volume we sought to document the thesis of Pareto’s gradual distancing from his 30-year commitment to liberal activism around the turn of the century, essentially out of his disillusionment at the results which had been achieved or which were achievable. In this chapter, we intend to trace this fairly rapid and in any case definitive process, which opened the way for a more dispassionate analysis of the political, and more generally the social, scene. To recapitulate briefly, at the end of 1906, Pareto acknowledged, in a rare reference to his own personal feelings, that “a decade or so [ago], [I] started to work on applied economics … and in order to work on applied economics [I] needed to have a party and that party was the liberals”.

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  • Fiorenzo Mornati, 2020. "The Definitive Abandonment of Liberal Political Activism," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Vilfredo Pareto: An Intellectual Biography Volume III, chapter 0, pages 77-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-57757-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57757-5_3
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