Kenneth Arrow
1921 – 2017 · aged 96
American economist (1921–2017)
- Born
- 23 Aug 1921 · New York City
- Died
- 21 Feb 2017 · Palo Alto
Life timeline
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- 23 Aug 1921BornBorn in New York City
- 1951AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
- 1951AwardFellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1957AwardJohn Bates Clark Medal
- 1959AwardFellow of the American Statistical Association
- 1972AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- 1974AwardHonorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
- 1977AwardJohn von Neumann Prize
- 1984AwardHonorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University
- 1986AwardJohn von Neumann Theory Prize
- 1998AwardKampé de Fériet Award
- 2004AwardNational Medal of Science
- 2006AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 21 Feb 2017DiedDied in Palo Alto
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1921 – 2017).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
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. 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.
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