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Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (widely called the Nobel Prize in Economics) in 1972, and the youngest person ever to receive this award, at 51. He is considered one of the founders of modern (post World War II) neo-classical economics.
His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and information economics.
He earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940. At Columbia University, he received a Master's degree in 1941. From 1946 to 1949 he spent his time partly as a graduate student at Columbia and partly as a research associate at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. During that time he also held the rank of Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1951 he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia. He is currently the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was one of the recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, presented by President George W. Bush for his contributions to research on the problem of making decisions using imperfect information and his research on bearing risk.
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The Economic Value of Life - Kenneth J. Arrow Award for the best research paper in health economics http://bit.ly/6gKdDl #p2 #hcr
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The Economic Value of Life - Kenneth J. Arrow Award for the best research paper in health economics http://bit.ly/6gKdDl #p2 #hcr
My graduate study was interrupted,like that of many others,by World War II. -Kenneth Joseph Arrow bit.ly/7aGs7P,bit.ly/4QGaDr,bit.ly/92p2ui
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My graduate study was interrupted,like that of many others,by World War II. -Kenneth Joseph Arrow bit.ly/7aGs7P,bit.ly/4QGaDr,bit.ly/92p2ui
My graduate study was interrupted,like that of many others,by World War II. -Kenneth Joseph Arrow bit.ly/7aGs7P,bit.ly/4QGaDr,bit.ly/92p2ui
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My graduate study was interrupted,like that of many others,by World War II. -Kenneth Joseph Arrow bit.ly/7aGs7P,bit.ly/4QGaDr,bit.ly/92p2ui
Arrow Bio from Queens - Talks up Arrow, disertation.
Arrow on Microsoft - Legal brief making extensive use of Arrow's declaration on Microsoft.
Autobiography - At the Nobel Prize webpage.
History of Economic Thought | Kenneth J. Arrow - Biography, works, and links.
INFORMS 1975-1999 Von Neumann Theory Prize Winners - Documentation on Arrow's prize-winning material.
Stanford Economics Faculty Profile - Arrow's profile at Stanford.
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