Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Economists
Vilfredo Pareto
Born 1848 in Paris to exiled Italian nobility. Engineer turned economist, succeeded Walras at Lausanne aged forty-eight. Formulated Pareto optimality and the 80/20 rule. Major contributor to both economics and sociology.
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