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  1. 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.

  2. Feb 21, 2017 · Kenneth Joseph Arrow was born on Aug. 23, 1921, in New York City. After graduating from Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan, he raced through City College, finishing with a bachelor’s ...

  3. Kenneth J. Arrow is a Nobel laureate in economic sciences who has made seminal contributions to the fields of social choice, Pareto efficiency, information, and game theory. He was born in New York, served in the Army Air Corps, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He held positions at Stanford, Harvard, and other institutions, and received many honors and awards.

  4. Mar 30, 2017 · Kenneth Arrow was the doyen of economic theory during the second half of the twentieth century. His fundamental and diverse contributions — to fields including welfare economics, which aims to ...

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  5. 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. He was cowinner (with Sir John R. Hicks) of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972.

  6. Feb 21, 2017 · Stanford News reports the death of Kenneth Arrow, a leading figure in the field of economic theory and social choice, who was also a world-renowned scholar in statistics and other fields. He received the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his work on general equilibrium theory and welfare theory, and was known for his contributions to social issues, such as politics, music and climate change.

  7. Oct 13, 2014 · Kenneth Arrow’s “impossibility” theorem—or “general possibility” theorem, as he called it—answers a very basic question in the theory of collective decision-making. Say there are some alternatives to choose among. They could be policies, public projects, candidates in an election, distributions of income and labour requirements ...

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