Kenneth Arrow

Tags: Economist.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23 1921) 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.

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alma mater

Columbia University, City College of New York

award

John von Neumann Theory Prize, John Bates Clark Medal, National Medal of Science, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

birth date

1921-08-23

birth place

New York City, United States

depiction description (caption)

National Medal of Science award ceremony 2004

field

Microeconomics, General equilibrium theory, Social choice theory

individualised GND number

118986856

influenced

John Harsanyi, Amartya Sen, Eric Maskin, Roger Myerson, Michael Spence, Karl Shell, Allan Gibbard, Nancy Stokey, Anthony Downs

influenced by

Harold Hotelling, Alfred Tarski

institution

Stanford University

nationality

United States