Pareto

[ pah-re-taw ]

/ pɑˈrɛ tɔ /

Vil·fre·do

[veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/,1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.

Example sentences from the Web for pareto

The extreme abstraction of the utility school is made very clear by Pareto, op.

Social Value |B. M. Anderson
He had to find some way of discovering what Pareto Extrapolations were—without uncovering his own lack of knowledge.

Planet of the Damned |Harry Harrison
In this work the researches of Italian writers, such as Pantaleoni and Pareto, are of conspicuous importance.

The New Gresham Encyclopedia |Various
Now no quantity of value, irrespective of the particular holder of the good, emerges for Pareto.

Social Value |B. M. Anderson

Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.

The Sensitive Man |Poul William Anderson

Pareto

/ (Italian paˈrɛːto) /

Vilfredo (vilˈfreːdo). 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist. He anticipated Fascist principles of government in his Mind and Society (1916)

(modifier) denoting a law, mathematical formula, etc, originally used by Pareto to express the frequency distribution of incomes in a society