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Condorcet was a French mathematician and philosopher. With many of his fellow encyclopédistes he shared the conviction that social sciences are amenable to mathematical rigour. His pioneer work on elections, the Essai sur l’application de l’analyse a la probabilité des decisions rendues a la pluralité des voix (1785) is a major step in that direction.
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Moulin, H., Young, H.P. (2018). Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743–1794). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_248
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