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Essai sur l'application de l'analyse a la probabilite des decisions rendues a la pluralite des voix (French, Paperback)
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Essai sur l'application de l'analyse a la probabilite des decisions rendues a la pluralite des voix (French, Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics
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A central figure in the early years of the French Revolution,
Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) was active as a mathematician,
philosopher, politician and economist. He argued for the values of
the Enlightenment, from religious toleration to the abolition of
slavery, believing that society could be improved by the
application of rational thought. In this essay, first published in
1785, Condorcet analyses mathematically the process of making
majority decisions, and seeks methods to improve the likelihood of
their success. The work was largely forgotten in the nineteenth
century, while those who did comment on it tended to find the
arguments obscure. In the second half of the twentieth century,
however, it was rediscovered as a foundational work in the theory
of voting and societal preferences. Condorcet presents several
significant results, among which Condorcet's paradox (the
non-transitivity of majority preferences) is now seen as the direct
ancestor of Arrow's paradox.
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