Pareto and Saint-Simonianism. The history of a criticism

Thierry Demals and Alexandra Hyard

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020, vol. 27, issue 3, 388-409

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to understand Vilfredo Pareto’s reading of the Saint-Simonian system, namely the project of a new social order based on an industrial organisation. Why did Pareto rank this system among modern socialist systems and why did he qualify it as a pseudo-scientific system and nothing more than a religious system? The reason why he perceived Saint-Simonianism as a non-science can be inferred from both pure theory of political economy and the theory of social evolution. The identification of Saint-Simonianism with a religious system probably derives from the first historians and commentators of socialism in the mid-nineteenth century.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2020.1750665

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