Pareto was born in Paris in 1848 to a French mother from a wealthy family and an Italian father who was in exile for being a Mazzini follower. Pareto attended the Polytechnic School in Turin and completed his studies with a thesis on the equilibrium of elastic solids. After graduating at the top of his class in 1870, he took his first job as a director of the Rome Railway Company. In 1874, Pareto became the managing director of an iron and steel company. He married a young Russian girl; however they were not together for long before she ran off with their cook. He spent much of his time reading about

This state of utility, along with the state of equilibrium, is the foundation of Pareto’s vision of society. As long as the most talented people, the elite, are in a position of power over the lower stratum of the population, Pareto’s ideal society would exist in its supreme form. He wanted the most skilled and intelligent people in the right places to utilize the way society should exist and continue. It is now evident that Pareto’s utopian society is extremely unrealistic. It would involve the oppression of many people and therefore it would not be ideal.

Pareto emphasized that the Residues, being manifestations of the Sentiments, were more of a method than a theory. They are frameworks used in order to develop a theory (this idea leads into Pareto’s Inductive Non-Logical Theory which will be discussed shortly). This framework is also a method of categorizing characteristics of humans and their actions. Once again, there are six key Residues that Pareto expanded on in detail, the first two being the most important. The Residue of Combination is the first and contains inventive and progressive types that prefer appeasement and cunning over brute violence as well as those whose methods are democratic, humanitarian, corrupt and corrupting in a Machiavellian sense. These are usually the attributes of “spectators,” politicians, inventors and skillful leaders. The other important Residue, the second, is the Residue of Persistence of Aggregates, which is a conservative tendency. It is a group mentality; it is someone fond of forceful actions and someone who respects tradition. Devotion to this goes to the family, the church, caste, and community.

This change leads society to equilibrium, yet another important theory of Pareto’s. He saw specific elements (physical, historical and internal powers such as Residues and Derivations, and geographical elements) that determined the form of society and guaranteed uninterrupted and even change, keeping society in a state of equilibrium. (Meisel 1965, pg 65) The way that society changes is by the switching of powers and Pareto saw two types of men that were these “powers.” The first type, speculators, are those that normally dominate the governing elite and under them society changes very rapidly. They are very eager, ready, spend much money, and invest in risky enterprises. The other type, are the rentiers. This type of person keeps a fixed income, likes change to take place slowly and under them it does, and furthermore they are very mistrustful, readily managed, timid and cautious. Society switches back and forth between these two groups and when this equilibrium is altered; Residues and Derivations must react so as to correct it. “If an existing state of social equilibrium is altered, forces tending to re-establish it come into play—that, no more, no less, is what equilibrium means” (Lopreato 1965, pg 69). These “forces” are sentiments manifested in Residues.

Not only was change and leadership in society important to Pareto, but also was the utility of society. The best way that Pareto described his vision on utilities was to set a certain state as a limit that an individual or community is assumed to approach. The other existing states were given numerical indices that were either more or less than the state limit. Those states closest to the limit had the largest index and those indices were indices of a state “X.” This state or entity “X” was what Pareto termed utility. (Lopreato 1965, pg 128-129)

The Derivations (the other half of the Derivatives) are rationalizations within social life. They serve as a non-logical argument, an assertion, an explanation, an association of sentiments or ideas in words, and an appeal

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