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1 author picked Vilfredo Pareto as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the best book to start your journey in understanding Vilfredo Pareto’s sociological writings

I recommend this book because it not only contains some of Pareto’s most important writings in a remarkably readable translation but also because S.E Finer provides an outstanding and lengthy introduction to many crucial aspects of Pareto’s sociology.

Finer was one of the most talented and objective scholars to write on Pareto’s thinking.

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