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Re: R: [SHOE] allusion to Pareto
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luigino bruni <[log in to unmask]>
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On the other hand, Pareto's works are full of references to
literature, poems, and humanities in general.

2012/6/22 Parisi Daniela Fernanda <[log in to unmask]>:
> Passion for literature does not know any limits among knowledge fields.
> That is incredible today!!
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> Da: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] per conto di Anthony Waterman [[log in to unmask]]
> Inviato: giovedì 21 giugno 2012 20.26
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> Oggetto: Re: [SHOE] allusion to Pareto
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> Auden and Harrod knew one another and their (Oxonian)  social circles somewhat overlapped.
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> Anthony Waterman
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> On 21/06/2012 10:42 AM, Paul Dudenhefer wrote:
> For what it's worth, I was reading the English poet W. H. Auden the other night and was astonished to come across a reference to Pareto. It occurs in Auden's long poem, Letter to Lord Byron (1937):
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> But if in highbrow circles he would sally
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>    It’s just as well to warn him there’s no stain on
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> Picasso, all-in wrestling, or the Ballet.
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>    Sibelius is the man. To get a pain on
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>    Listening to Elgar is a sine qua non.
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> A second-hand acquaintance of Pareto’s
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> Ranks higher than an intimate of Plato’s.
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> I take it the "he" is Byron, although that's not entirely clear.
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> Paul
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