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Kublai Khan
emperor of Yuan dynasty

Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist

Robert E. Park
American sociologist

W. Lloyd Warner
American sociologist

C. Wright Mills
American sociologist

J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi
Swiss economist
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