Kenneth Arrow

Kenneth Arrow
Arrow in 1996
Born
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

August 23, 1921
New York City, U.S.
DiedFebruary 21, 2017(2017-02-21) (aged 95)
Education
Academic career
Field
InstitutionStanford University
University of Chicago
Harvard University
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics
Doctoral
advisor
Harold Hotelling
Doctoral
students
Influences
Contributions
Awards
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitehealthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/people/kenneth_j_arrow

Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. Along with John Hicks, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972.

In economics, Arrow was a major figure in post-World War II neoclassical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. His contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis are significant. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information.

  1. ^ Dewar, Diane M. (2017). Essentials of Health Economics. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. ISBN 978-1-284-05462-0.
  2. ^ Arrow, Kenneth Joseph (2017). On Ethics and Economics: Conversations with Kenneth J. Arrow. Routledge. pp. 12, 33. ISBN 978-1-138-67606-0.