My thanks go to Professor Pascal Bridel, one of the main sponsors of my Pareto studies, for having organised this symposium, as well as to my fellow Pareto researchers, who have very kindly given my biography on Pareto the benefit of their detailed scrutiny.
My gratitude is all the more heartfelt due to the fact that my intellectual biography of Pareto is a product of a bygone era, a work in the manner of past decades. In it, I hope to give expression to one of the explicit aims Giovanni Busino articulated at the time of founding this review almost 60 years ago.
To begin with, my intellectual biography follows the philological, as opposed to critical, approach which Busino desired to adopt for the Œuvres complètes of Pareto. Further, I have sought to reproduce the spirit of le tout Pareto en tant que Pareto, in contrast with current academic fashion in the French-speaking world and elsewhere, where Pareto is condensed to simple, more or less memorable catch phrases serving to spark d...