Kenneth J. Arrow

Kenneth J. Arrow

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1972

Harvard University

“for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”

Kenneth J. Arrow was an American economist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with John R. Hicks for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory. He is also known for Arrow's impossibility theorem in social choice theory.

Field
Business & Economics · Welfare Economics
Lifespan
1921–2017