Vilfredo Pareto’s Contributions to Modern Social Theory

Christopher Adair-Toteff is Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida, USA. A philosopher, sociologist, and social theorist, he has published widely in the field of classical sociology. He is the author of Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility, Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion, Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion, Reintroducing Toennies and Money, Value, and Capital: The Early Austrian School of Economics. He is the editor of The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch and The Anthem Companion to Ferdinand Tönnies and the co-editor of The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils and The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron.

• 1. Pareto: A Centennial Appraisal 2. Non-Logical Action and Emotions in Pareto’s Sociology 3. Pareto’s Economics: From Utility to Ophelimity 4. Differing Twins: Economy, Society, and Politics in Pareto and Sombart 5. Aron and Pareto 6. Pareto and Friedrich: The Harvard Elite Story 7. Talcott Parsons and Vilfredo Pareto 8. Reasons as Causes: Pareto on Rationality and Irrationality in Action 9. The Social Turnover of Pareto: Sociology between Naturalization and Socialization 10. Pareto’s Political Sociology 11. Concluding Comments