Kenneth Arrow, one of the giants of economics, has died at the age of 95. He became a Nobel Laureate in 1972. As a young lawyer in 1977, I saw him in action as an expert witness on the subject of risk ...
One of his earliest and most famous contributions was to social choice theory “Arrow’s impossibility theorem”. He also contributed to neoclassical General Equilibrium Analysis but also contributed to ...
Public Choice, Vol. 179, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Honoring Kenneth Arrow (April 2019), pp. 125-131 (7 pages) Arrow’s impossibility result not only had a profound influence on welfare economics, but was ...