THE MIND & SOCIETY. [Trattato di Sociologia generale.] [First Amer. Edn.]

by Pareto, Vilfredo (Livingston & Bongiorno; trans.)

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NY:: Harcourt Brace,, 1935. Hardcover; cover tips lightly worn; some two dozen ink marginalia or underlines scattered through 4 vols.; otherwise condition good.. index-bibliography. Frontispiece portrait in vol. one. Pareto (1848-1923), economist, wrote `Trattato'--a work on sociology--in 1916, exhaustively commented (with copious Livingston notes) on faults of Romans & Greeks, statesmen, clergy, philosophers, authors, humanists, et al. ||| His aim was to show that `elites'--those meant to rule by manipulating The Masses (augmented by force as needed)--plus unfettered free trade & political authoritarianism would bring `healthy' social conditions. ||| He was damned by many including Benedetto Croce, & praised by others--Mussolini & Nazi Germany-- who said it was a manifesto for Fascism, just as `Das Kapital' was for Marxism.