Introduction / Aldo Montesano and Luigino Bruni -- Pareto's methodological project / Luigino Bruni -- Pareto and contemporary economic theory / John S. Chipman -- Choice, preference and rationalizability in Pareto's theory of economic behaviour / Marco Dardi -- Walras and Pareto on the meaning...

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