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Les entreprises où les hommes s'exposent à une perte, dans la vue d'un profit Condorcet et l'héritage de d'Alembert

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  • Nicolas Rieucau

    (LED - Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)

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In the same way than Voltaire as far as justice and litterature are concerned, and than Turgot in matter of economics and politics, d'Alembert has been traditionally considered as the mentor of Condorcet in sciences and mathematics. For all that, is the influence of the joint publisher of the Encyclopédie upon Condorcet's ideas in economics to be judged as a marginal one ? Precisely not : departing from a mixed conception of mathematics which he shares with d'Alembert, and from a questionning upon probabilistic doubts of the latter, Condorcet has been induced to develop a choice theory under uncertainty which overtakes the classical field of chance games or of insurances, to extend to the domain of economical enterprise as such, whatsoever consisting in culture, commerce or industry. In doing this, he submits the factor of risk to an unprecedented probabilistic formalisation as he envisages the profit collected by the undertaker.

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  • Nicolas Rieucau, 1998. "Les entreprises où les hommes s'exposent à une perte, dans la vue d'un profit Condorcet et l'héritage de d'Alembert," Post-Print hal-01616995, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01616995
    DOI: 10.2307/3502778
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