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French mathematician and economist, Canard was born in Moulins, near Vichy, around 1750, and died there in 1833. Little is known about his life other than the fact that he taught mathematics at the Ecole Centrale de Moulins. His other interests included economics, jurisprudence and meteorology.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Hébert, R.F. (2008). Canard, Nicolas-François (c1750–1833). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_690-2
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