Kenneth Arrow — economist with roots in the Russian Empire
Kenneth Arrow (23 August 1921, New York City – 21 February 2017, Palo Alto) was an American economist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks. His impossibility theorem is a founding result of social choice theory, and with Gérard Debreu he worked on general equilibrium theory. He taught at Chicago, Stanford and Harvard (1968–1979) before returning to Stanford.
Tracing the roots — Iași and Podu Iloaiei (Romania)
No documented link to the Russian Empire: Arrow was born in New York to a family of Romanian-Jewish descent. His mother, Lilian Greenberg, was from Iași and his father, Harry Arrow, from nearby Podu Iloaiei, both in Romania.
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Iași and Podu Iloaiei (Romania). 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."