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 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.^[3][4]

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.