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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.

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Awards
John Bates Clark Medal (1957) · Nobel Prize in Economics (1972) · von Neumann Theory Prize (1986) · National Medal of Science (2004) · ForMemRS (2006)
Education
City College of New York (BS) · Columbia University (MS, PhD)
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.
Discipline
Microeconomics · General equilibrium theory · Social choice theory
Doctoral advisor
Harold Hotelling

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Doctoral students · 19
Kenneth Arrow → Andrea Prat, David F. Bradford, Eric Maskin, Gillian Hadfield, Jan Kmenta, Jean-Jacques Laffont, John Geanakoplos, John Harsanyi, Joshua Gans, Karl Shell, Menahem Yaari, Michael Bruno, Michael Schwarz, Michael Spence, Nancy Gordon, Nancy Stokey, Roger Myerson, Sebastián Piñera, Timur Kuran
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Awards · 5
Kenneth Arrow → ForMemRS (2006), John Bates Clark Medal (1957), National Medal of Science (2004), Nobel Prize in Economics (1972), von Neumann Theory Prize (1986)
Notable ideas · 4
Kenneth Arrow → Arrow's impossibility theorem, Endogenous growth theory, Fundamental theorems of welfare economics, General equilibrium theory
Discipline · 3
Kenneth Arrow → General equilibrium theory, Microeconomics, Social choice theory
Education · 2
Kenneth Arrow → City College of New York (BS), Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Born · 1
Kenneth Arrow → Kenneth Joseph Arrow August 23, 1921 New York City, U.S.
Died · 1
Kenneth Arrow → February 21, 2017(2017-02-21) (aged 95) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Doctoral advisor · 1
Kenneth Arrow → Harold Hotelling

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