"Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true."
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Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto (July 15 1848 β August 19 1923) was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher, who contributed greatly to turning economics into a data-based science.
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