Kenneth Arrow

Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with John Hicks.

In economics, Arrow was a major figure in postwar neoclassical economic theory. Four of his students (Roger Myerson, Eric Maskin, John Harsanyi, and Michael Spence) went on to become Nobel laureates themselves. His contributions to social choice theory, notably his "impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis are significant. His work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information, was also foundational.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, John Bates Clark Medal, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University Education: City College of New York, Townsend Harris High School, Columbia University, City University of New York

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