Kenneth Arrow

Kenneth Arrow
Arrow in 1996
Born	Kenneth Joseph Arrow August 23, 1921 New York City, U.S.
Died	February 21, 2017(2017-02-21) (aged 95) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Education	City College of New York (BS) Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Academic career
Field	Microeconomics General equilibrium theory Social choice theory
Institution	Stanford University University of Chicago Harvard University
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Doctoral advisor	Harold Hotelling
Doctoral students	David F. Bradford Michael Bruno John Geanakoplos Joshua Gans Nancy Gordon Gillian Hadfield John Harsanyi Jan Kmenta Timur Kuran Jean-Jacques Laffont Eric Maskin Roger Myerson Sebastián Piñera Andrea Prat Karl Shell Michael Spence Nancy Stokey[1] Menahem Yaari
Influences	Alfred Tarski[2]
Contributions	General equilibrium theory Fundamental theorems of welfare economics Arrow's impossibility theorem Endogenous growth theory
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1957) Nobel Prize in Economics (1972) von Neumann Theory Prize (1986) National Medal of Science (2004) ForMemRS (2006)
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Website	healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/people/kenneth_j_arrow

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. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. His contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis are significant. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information.