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Vilfredo Pareto: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries, edited by Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2012. 201pp. $99.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780745679950.
Until a scholarly relationship between Pareto and Benito Mussolini, which never occurred, was claimed by the dictator in his 1928 autobiography, then embroidered upon during the Second World War when a false link was posited between Pareto's ''circulation of elites'' and the bombastic historical claims of fascist propaganda, Pareto was a social scientist whom all educated people were supposed to know about, and to admire. He was lionized at Harvard by Lawrence Henderson, both in his famous weekly seminar and in Pareto's General Sociology: A Physiologist's Interpretation (1935), appreciatively scrutinized by George Homans in his first monograph (1934), and analyzed in detail by Parsons in his Structure of Social Action (1937). More astonishingly, in 1933 Pareto was introduced by Vincent Canby in the Saturday Review of Literature...