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Arrow</b></font><p><img src="kenneth-j-arrow-1-sized.jpg" height=285 width=212 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Kenneth J. Arrow"><b>AKA</b> Kenneth Joseph Arrow<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/753/000106435/" class=proflink>23-Aug</a>-<a href="/lists/920/000105605/" class=proflink>1921</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/631/000069424/" class=proflink>New York City</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/935/000106617/" class=proflink>21-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/858/000402649/" class=proflink>2017</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/649/000069442/" class=proflink>Palo Alto, CA</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/181/000068974/" class=proflink>Economist</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>Social Choice and Individual Values</i><p><b>Military service:</b> US Army Air Corps (1942-46, Captain)<p>Famous for his 1952 Impossibility Theorem.<p><b>Father:</b> Harry I. Arrow<br><b>Mother:</b> Lillian<br><b>Wife:</b> Selma Schweitzer (m. 1947, d. 2015, two sons)<br><b>Son:</b> David Michael Arrow<br><b>Son:</b> Andrew Seth Arrow<br><p> High School: Townsend Harris High School, Manhattan, NY<br> University: <a href="/edu/691/000068487/">BS Social Science, City College of New York (1940)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">MA, Columbia University (1941)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">PhD, Columbia University (1951)</a><br> Assistant Professor: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago (1948-49)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/468/000068264/">Economics and Statistics, Stanford University (1949-68)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">Economics, Harvard University (1968-79)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/468/000068264/">Economics, Stanford University (1979-)</a><br><p> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> VP (1979-81)<br> <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> <br> <a href="/org/059/000103747/">American Economic Association</a> President (1972)<br> <a href="/org/640/000052484/">American Philosophical Society</a> <br> <a href="/org/058/000103746/">American Statistical Association</a> <br> <a href="/org/791/000107470/">Econometric Society</a> President (1956)<br> <a href="/org/958/000121595/">Economists for Peace and Security</a> Founding Trustee<br> <a href="/org/290/000161804/">Federation of American Scientists</a> Board of Sponsors<br> <a href="/org/805/000167304/">John Kerry for President</a> <br> <a href="/org/692/000054530/">National Academy of Sciences</a> <br> <a href="/org/393/000051240/">RAND Corporation</a> <br> <a href="/gov/445/000094163/">US Council of Economic Advisers</a> (1962)<br> <a href="/honors/932/000033833/">John Bates Clark Medal</a> 1957<br> <a href="/honors/183/000067979/">Nobel Prize for Economics</a> 1972 (with <a href="/people/582/000108258/">John R. Hicks</a>)<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Social Choice and Individual Values</i> (<tt>1951</tt>, economics)<br><i>Essays in the Theory of Risk Bearing</i> (<tt>1971</tt>, economics)<br><i>General Competitive Analysis</i> (<tt>1971</tt>, economics, with Frank Hahn)<br><i>The Limits of Organization</i> (<tt>1974</tt>, economics)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=107755"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=107755">Kenneth J. 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