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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Basic timeline of Kenneth Arrow

This post is a basic timeline of economist Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017). There are 18 events listed below chronologically.

• 1921: Born in New York, New York
• 1940: Earns BA degree in mathematics from City College in New York
• 1941: Earns Masters degree in mathematics from Columbia University
• 1942-1946: Serves in US Army Air Forces as weather officer
• 1946: Enrolls at University of Chicago as a research associate and student
• 1951: Becomes professor at Stanford University
• 1951: Publishes Arrow's impossibility theorem
• 1954: Publishes Arrow-Debreu model with Gérard Debreu
• 1951: Publishes first and second fundamental theorems of welfare economics
• 1957: Receives John Bates Clark Medal
• 1963: Publishes Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care
• 1968: Becomes professor at Harvard University
• 1972: Receives Nobel Prize in Economics
• 1979: Returns to Stanford University as a professor
• 1991: Retires from Stanford University
• 1995: Teaches at the University of Siena
• 2009: Becomes a founding editor of Annual Review of Economics
• 2017: Died at age 95 in Palo Alto, California

Sources

Wikipedia: Kenneth Arrow, Arrow-Debreu model