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Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow 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.
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Born 23 August 1921 · Died 21 February 2017 · Q192592
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2026· 2 entries
“Look, the main argument for this is not very complicated: as we all know, half of 1 percent of our students, if that, go on to graduate school in economics, end of argument.”
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2017· 1 entry
Died 2017-02-21.
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2016· 1 entry
“There Is Regulatory Capture, But It Is By No Means Complete”
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded John von Neumann Award (2013).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for Social Choice and Individual Values (2009).
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“A Conversation with Robert A. Dahl”
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2007· 1 entry
Was the first Witten Lecturer at the Witten/Herdecke University as the awardee of the Witten Lectures in Economics and Philosophy
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2004).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded Kampé de Fériet Award (1998).
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“Paul Krugman replies to M. Mitchell Waldrop”
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“Letter from Kenneth J. Arrow”
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1995· 1 entry
Taught economics at the University of Siena
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1988· 1 entry
“Ricardo's Work as Viewed by Later Economists”
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University (1984).
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1979· 1 entry
And became the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded John von Neumann Prize (1977).
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1974).
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The American Economic Association published the paper written by Kenneth Arrow, General Economic Equilibrium: Purpose, Analytic Techniques, Collective Choice, where he states:
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1972).
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And the 1986 recipient of the von Neumann Theory Prize
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1968· 2 entries
Left Stanford for Harvard University, where he was appointed Professor of Economics; it was during his tenure there that he received the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Was elected to both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1959).
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1957· 3 entries
Won John Bates Clark Medal (1957).
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And the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with John Hicks
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And was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959
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1951· 5 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1951).
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Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1951).
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Received a PhD degree from Columbia University
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Arrow presented the first and second fundamental theorems of welfare economics and their proofs without requiring differentiability of utility, consumption, or technology, and including corner solutions
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Studied at Columbia University, Doctor of Philosophy (1951).
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1947· 1 entry
Married Selma Schweitzer, graduate in economics at the University of Chicago and psychotherapist, who died in 2015; they had two children, David Michael (b
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University, master's degree (1941).
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1940· 1 entry
Where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-08-23.
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