Kenneth Arrow Achievements, Author Biography, Trivia, and Movies

Kenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51. In economics, he is considered an important figure in post-World War II neo-classical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. Arrow's impact on the economics profession has been tremendous. For more than fifty years he has been one of the most influential of all practising economists. His most significant works are his...
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Birthdate:	August 23, 1921
Birthplace:	New York City, New York
Age:	90
Education:	Columbia University, City College of New York
Also known as:	Kenneth J. Arrow, Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Honors and Awards

Year	Award	Work
1972	Nobel Prize in Economics	General equilibrium

Written works by Kenneth Arrow

Théorie de l'information et des organisations
Applied economics
Optimal insurance and generalized deductibles
Statistical requirements for Greek economic planning
General equilibrium

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Théorie de l'information et des organisations
Applied economics
Optimal insurance and generalized deductibles
Statistical requirements for Greek economic planning
General equilibrium
Risk allocation and information
Selected readings in economic theory from Econometrica
Studies in resource allocation processes
Applied Research for Social Policy
Studies in Linear & Non-Linear Programming
limits of organization
Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare
economics of information
The Economics of Public Debt
Social choice and individual values
Social Choice and Individual Values, Second edition
Petroleum price regulation
Production and capital
Welfare analysis of changes in health coinsurance rates
She hui xuan ze yu ge ren jia zhi
Collected papers of Kenneth J. Arrow
Essays in the theory of risk-bearing
Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 2
Public investment, the rate of return, and optimal fiscal policy
The Balance Between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development
Two notes on inferring long run behavior from social experiments
Information and economic behavior
time series analysis of interindustry demands
On Mandelbaum's study of The industrialization of backward areas
General competitive analysis
Theoretical issues in health insurance
What Does the Present Owe the Future?
Individual choice under certainty and uncertainty
Issues in Contemporary Economics

Places Kenneth Arrow has lived

Map showing Places Lived by Kenneth Arrow

Marker	Location	Population
A	New York City	8,175,133

People who influenced Kenneth Arrow

Harold Hotelling

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George Dantzig

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Alfred Tarski

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