Kenneth Arrow — econ (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Kenneth Arrow was an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972 for his foundational work on general equilibrium theory and welfare economics. His impossibility theorem — proving that no voting system can perfectly aggregate individual preferences — is one of the most important results in political science and economics.
Tracing the roots — Romania / Russia
Born in New York in 1921 to Harry Arrow and Lilian Greenberg, both the children of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Russia (Russian Empire), Arrow grew up in the immigrant Jewish intellectual world of New York. The rigorous, abstract thinking and drive for universal principles that characterise his work carry the intellectual inheritance of that tradition.
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Romania / Russia. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty."