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Kenneth J. Arrow, MA, PhD
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus; CHP/PCOR Fellow; FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy
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arrow@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9165 (phone)
(650) 725-5702 (fax)
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Economics Building
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
RESEARCH INTERESTS
measurement of welfare changes in a dynamic economy; collective decision-making; the role of networks in the labor market
Kenneth Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, emeritus; a CHP/PCOR fellow; and an FSI senior fellow by courtesy. He is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work has been primarily in economic theory and operations, focusing on areas including social choice theory, risk bearing, medical economics, general equilibrium analysis, inventory theory, and the economics of information and innovation. He was one of the first economists to note the existence of a learning curve, and he also showed that under certain conditions an economy reaches a general equilibrium. In 1972, together with Sir John Hicks, he won the Nobel Prize in economics, for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.

Arrow has served on the economics faculties of the University of Chicago, Harvard and Stanford. Prior to that, he served as a weather officer in the U.S. Air Corps (1942-46), and a research associate at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics (1947-49). In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He received a BS from City College, an MA and PhD from Columbia University, and holds approximately 20 honorary degrees.
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Economics
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Genetic diversity and interdependent crop choices in agriculture

GM Heal, B Walker, S Levin, Kenneth J. Arrow, P Dasgupta, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R Ehrlich, K-G Mäler, N Kautsky, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen H. Schneider, D Starrett
Resource and Energy Economics vol. 26 (2004)

Are We Consuming Too Much?

Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence H. Goulder, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul Ehrlich, Geoffrey Heal, Simon Levin, Karl-Goran Maler, Stephen H. Schneider, David Starrett, Brian Walker
Journal of Economic Perspectives vol. 18, 3 (2004) +PDF+

Reflections on the Reflections

Kenneth J. Arrow
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law vol. 26, 5 (2001) +HTML+

Value of Nature and the Nature of Value, The

Gretchen C. Daily, Tore Soderqvist, Sara Aniyar, Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Folke, AnnMari Jansson, Bengt-Owe Jansson, Nils Kautsky
Science Magazine vol. 289, 5478 (2000) +PDF+
 

Intergenerational Equity and the Rate of Discount in Long-Term Social Investment

Kenneth Arrow
In Contemporary Economic Issues: Economic Behavior and Design (Chapter Five), M Sertel (ed), Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St Martin's Press in association with the International Economic Association vol. 4 (1999)
Events
 

Workshop: The movement of suicide bombing and how it is reflected in our thinking about social behavior in the social sciences (11/22/2002)

CDDRL Special Seminar with Kenneth J. Arrow, Yossi Feinberg, Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Eli Berman, Paul Milgrom, Mark Granovetter, Jon Elster, Douglas Heckathorn, Guillermina Jasso, Arie Kruglanski, David Laitin, Howard Rosenthal, Noah Friedkin, Alan Krueger
 

Sustainability Part I (10/4/2001)

Environmental Policy Forum with Lawrence H. Goulder, Kenneth J. Arrow
Research Programs and Projects
 

Research Initiative on the Environment, the Economy, and Sustainable Welfare
Research Project (Completed)