
Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. 1 Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (forthcoming). The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80 of consequences come from 20 of causes (the 'vital few'). In Handbook of social choice and welfare, vol. Welfarism, individual rights, and procedural fairness. The theory of the moral sentiments, 6th edn. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981. Journal of Political Economy 78: 152–157. Interpersonal comparisons of utility: A comment. An essay on the nature and significance of economic science, 2nd ed. After his graduation from the University of Turin (1869), where he had studied mathematics and physics, Pareto became an engineer and. Journal of Political Economy 109: 281–286. Vilfredo Pareto, (born July 15, 1848, Paris, Francedied August 19, 1923, Geneva, Switzerland), Italian economist and sociologist who is known for his theory on mass and elite interaction as well as for his application of mathematics to economic analysis. Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto principle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals, Trans. It explores the idea of the relationship between inputs and outputs being. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals, ed. This principle specifies that roughly 80 of consequences come from 20 of causes. Journal of Political Economy 61: 434–435. Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking. Moral thinking: Its levels, method, and point. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1998.įrank, R. The descent of man and selection in relation to sex, 2nd ed. Impossibility theorems in the Arrovian framework. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.Ĭampbell, D., and J. Securities against misrule and other constitutional writings for Tripoli and Greece, ed.

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.īentham, J. This essay surveys these results, including various extensions thereof, and offers perspectives on the conflict, drawing on classical and contemporary work in political economy and economic psychology. Subsequent work indicates more broadly that the Pareto principle conflicts with all non-welfarist principles. Arrow’s impossibility theorem and Sen’s liberal paradox are two notable examples. The Pareto principle, the seemingly incontrovertible dictum that if all individuals prefer some regime to another then so should society, may conflict with competing principles.
