Saturday, February 10, 2024

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), a classical liberal

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"... Pareto soon plunged into political writing, taking a fiery stand in favour of laissez-faire and against all forms of government intervention, defending personal and economic freedom, and attacking plutocratic subsidies and privileges to business with equal fervour to his denunciations of social legislation or proletarian socialist forms of intervention. Pareto was one of the founders of the Adam Smith Society in Italy, and also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice during the early 1880s. ... 
Thus Pareto writes bitterly of how in society, robbery through government is far easier, and hence more attractive, than hard work for the acquisition of wealth. ..."

Vilfredo Pareto, Pessimistic Follower of Molinari | Mises Wire by Murray N. Rothbard



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