Nicolas-François Canard

Nicolas-François Canard
Born c. 1750
Died 1833
Moulins, Allier, France
Nationality French
Fields Economics
mathematics
Influenced Antoine Augustin Cournot
Principes d'économie politique

Nicolas-François Canard (c. 1750 – 1833) was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist. He was one of the pioneers of applying mathematics to economic problems, forestalling the works of Antoine Augustin Cournot, William Stanley Jevons, and others.

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