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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.
Kenneth J. Arrow (born August 23, 1921, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 21, 2017, Palo Alto, California) was an American economist known for his contributions to welfare economics and to general economic equilibrium theory.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972 was awarded jointly to John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory"
Feb 21, 2017 · Kenneth J. Arrow, one of the most brilliant economic minds of the 20th century and, at 51, the youngest economist ever to win a Nobel, died on Tuesday at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was...
Feb 21, 2017 · Kenneth J. Arrow. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972. Born: 23 August 1921, New York, NY, USA. Died: 21 February 2017, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Feb 21, 2017 · Arrow’s pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory led him to become the youngest person to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he received in 1972 together with British economist Sir John Hicks.
Mar 30, 2017 · Metrics. One of the most influential thinkers in economic theory. Kenneth Arrow was the doyen of economic theory during the second half of the twentieth century.
Feb 22, 2017 · Nobel Prize-winning Stanford economist Kenneth Arrow died in his home in Palo Alto on Tuesday morning. He was 95. Arrow, the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus, was a world-renowned scholar in the fields of economic theory and research operations.
Kenneth Arrow discusses his early education and the appeal of probability theory, his efforts during World War II to improve flight routes by calculating wind patterns (20:26), how the Impossibility Theorem was born (36:15), and why his theories on health “changed the whole texture of how people thought about the problem” (43:15).
Feb 23, 2017 · PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Kenneth J. Arrow, the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel prize for economics, whose theories on risk, innovation and the basic mathematics of markets have influenced thinking on everything from voting to health insurance to high finance, has died. He was 95.
