The Rise and Fall of the Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology (Italian: Un'applicazione di teorie sociologiche) is a 1900 book by the Italian writer Vilfredo Pareto.
It is a study of elites, exploring Pareto's conception of the circulation of elites.
It marked a change in Pareto's area of interest from econometrics to sociology.
[1][2] It was first published as an essay in the Rivista italiana di sociologia in July 1900.
[3] It was published in English translation in 1968.