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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 was an American economist known for his contributions to welfare economics and to general economic equilibrium theory. He was cowinner (with Sir John R. Hicks) of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972.
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 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.
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 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.
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 22, 2017 · Kenneth J. Arrow, a Nobel laureate in economics and a RAND Corporation consultant since 1948 whose groundbreaking work shaped scholarly thinking about such critical issues as the fairness of democratic elections, climate change and the cost of health care, has died. He was 95.
