Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

His writings reflected the ideas of Léon Walras that economics is essentially a mathematical science. M. In one of his books publiVilfredo Paretod in 1909 he showed the Pareto distribution of how wealth is distributed he believed "through any human society in any age or country".

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; Italian: [vilˈfreːdo paˈreːto]; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian engineer sociologist economist political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices.