Welcome to a Wisdom seminar with Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Operations Research at Stanford University, and Laureate of the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.Arrow will talk about insights, barriers and opportunities that shaped his long and successful research career.
About Kenneth Arrow
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).
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.
Arrow has received the American Economic Association´s John Bates Clark Medal and in 1972, together with Sir John Hicks, he was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
