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Kenneth Arrow

1921 - 2017

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Arrow is the 68th most popular economist, the 1,123rd most popular biography from United States (down from 938th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Economist.

Kenneth Arrow is most famous for his work in economics, specifically in the field of welfare economics. He is also well known for his work in social choice theory and general equilibrium theory.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Kenneth Arrow ranks 68 out of 414. Before him are William Vickrey, Lionel Robbins, Wang Anshi, Bernard Mandeville, Franco Modigliani, and Lawrence Klein. After him are Robert Mundell, Benjamin Graham, Friedrich List, Thorstein Veblen, Gérard Debreu, and James Tobin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Kenneth Arrow ranks 49. Before him are Marija Gimbutas, Vasily Stalin, Jean-Marie Balestre, Alida Valli, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Georges Brassens. After him are James Jones, Abdul Salam Arif, Sugar Ray Robinson, Gérard Debreu, Yitzhak Navon, and Jack Steinberger. Among people deceased in 2017, Kenneth Arrow ranks 47. Before him are Liliane Bettencourt, Emmanuelle Riva, Powers Boothe, Chester Bennington, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Albert Speer. After him are George A. Romero, Derek Walcott, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Emma Morano, Jonathan Demme, and Malcolm Young.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Arrow ranks 1,123 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Martin Seligman (1942), Gena Rowlands (1930), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), and Dashiell Hammett (1894). After him are Anne Sullivan (1866), Charley Patton (1891), David Fincher (1962), Mahershala Ali (1974), George H. Hitchings (1905), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Kenneth Arrow ranks 18. Before him are Edmund Phelps (1933), Gary Becker (1930), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), and Lawrence Klein (1920). After him are Thorstein Veblen (1857), James Tobin (1918), Robert Solow (1924), Murray Rothbard (1926), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and James M. Buchanan (1919).

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