Pareto’s Trattato di Sociologia Generale: a behaviourist ante litteram approach

Roberto Marchionatti and Fiorenzo Mornati

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2021, vol. 45, issue 2, 353-369

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’.

Keywords: Vilfredo Pareto; Trattato di Sociologia; Economics and sociology; Behaviourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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