Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms

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Hélène Landemore is a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris Sciences Po Paris and Harvard University (PhD 2008). After holding postdoctoral positions at the Collège de France in Paris Brown University and MIT she is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Hume: probabilité et choix raisonnable (2004). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Moral Philosophy Raison Publique Synthese Critical Review and Political Psychology. Jon Elster has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2005. Previously he was a professor at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Academia Europaea the Norwegian Academy of Science and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Valencia Stockholm Trondheim Bogotá Torcuata di Tella and Louvain-la-Neuve. Elster is the author of 23 monographs which have been translated into 18 languages. Most recently these include L'Irrationalité; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; Le Désintéressement; Explaining Social Behavior; Agir contre soi; Closing the Books; and Alchemies of the Mind.