# Vilfredo Pareto

> An Italian engineer who noticed that 80% of Italy's wealth sat with 20% of its people — and turned that asymmetry into a universal principle now wielded everywhere from business strategy to software bugs.

*Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1848-07-15
- **Died:** 1923-08-19
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was born Wilfried Fritz Pareto on 15 July 1848, trained in physics and mathematics, and worked across civil engineering, economics, sociology, political science, and philosophy. He made his mark studying income distribution and individual choice, helping build the Lausanne School of economics and introducing the concept of Pareto efficiency to microeconomics. He was the first to observe that income follows a power law — a Pareto distribution — drawn from his finding that roughly 80% of Italian wealth concentrated in about 20% of the population, the insight that birthed the Pareto principle. He popularised the term "elite" in social analysis and contributed to elite theory. He died 19 August 1923, remembered as one of the last Renaissance scholars, a polymath whose range touched nearly every major field of his time.

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## Topics
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