This post repackages the information contained in the mini-c.v. for the Social Science Research Council fellow of 1951-52, Kenneth Arrow, then a thirty year old freshly minted Columbia economics Ph.D. and associate professor of economics at Stanford. Fellows were asked to limit their cited publications to ten. It is interesting to note that Arrow could have easily added three other items but didn’t. It is also interesting to see that he gave a citation to the French translation of a chapter he published in English. Does any one have a clue to why Arrow might have made that choice?
The data below come from the publication Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951 that is simply chock-full of mid-career biographical information for other economists as well
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ARROW, KENNETH (JOSEPH)
Research Training Fellow 1951-52
[Personal:]
b. New York, N. Y. August 23, 1921.
m. Selma Schweitzer 1947.
[Education:]
B.S. 1940, City College, New York;
M.A. in mathematics 1941, Ph.D. 1951, Columbia, economics.
[Employment:]
Actuarial clerk 1941, Guardian Life Insurance Company;
USAAF 1942-46, captain;
Instructor in economics, summer 1946, City College, New York;
Research associate 1947-49, Cowles Commission for Research in Economics;
Assistant professor of economics 1948-49, University of Chicago;
Acting assistant professor 1949, associate professor of economics and statistics 1950—, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Home: 4 Aliso Way, Menlo Park, Calif.
Consultant: Bureau of the Budget 1948;
Rand Corporation 1948-51.
Publications:
“On the Use of Winds in Flight Planning,” J. Meteorology 1949; in Econometrica: (with D. Blackwell and M. A. Girshick) “Bayes and Minimax Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems” 1949; “Homogeneous Functions in Mathematical Economics: Comment” 1950. “A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare,” J. Polit. Econ. 1950; “L’Utilisation des Modèles Mathématiques dans les Sciences Sociales” in Les “Sciences Politiques” aux États-Unis (ed. D. Lerner and H. A. Lasswell) 1951 [Original english version (?) as Chapter 8 in “Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences” in Daniel Lerner and Harold D. Lasswell (eds.), The Policy Sciences: Recent Developments in Scope and Method (Stanford University Press, 1951)]; “Alternative Proof of the Substitution Theorem for the Leontief Model in the General Case” in Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation (ed. T. C. Koopmans) 1951; Social Choice and Individual Values 1951.
Fellowship program: study in Western Europe of statistical problems arising in economic planning.
Current research: welfare economics; foundation of statistical inference; index number theory; statistical problems in “model building”; theory of economic behavior under conditions of uncertainty.
Source: Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951. pp. 11-12.
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