Kenneth Arrow dies at 95

February 21, 2017 EAMS

A big loss for our profession. Here are three articles about this sad news:

The New York Times

The Washington Post

Financial Times

and a longer blog post about his main contributions:

The Greatest Living Economist Has Passed Away: Notes on Kenneth Arrow Part I

The end of the great order under the Heaven
The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order) makes two key points. First, and continuing from Gerstle’s previous book (The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, coauthored with Steve Fraser) it insists on the idea of a political and economic “order”. An […]
Living through another great transformation…
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The end and the beginning of history
It is not often that one in the process of learning of, or reading, a book develops three different opinions about the book. I have heard of Lea Ypi’s Free after it became an international bestseller. I was even then somewhat intrigued by the topic, an autobiographical story of growing up in Albania at “the end of […]
Marx Truncated
Shlomo Avineri’s Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution is an excellent introduction to some parts of Marx’s philosophy, but a very truncated book as far as other parts of Marx’s work and biography are concerned. Marx’s Jewishness. Avineri’s book is part of a series about Jewish lives published by Yale University Press. The […]
The life of Maynard K.
Zach Carter’s biography of Keynes “The price of peace” is not a typical biography. It opens when Keynes was 31 years of age in the Summer of 1914 working on pre-empting the banking crisis in England following the Sarajevo assassination and the near-certain slide of Europe into the war. It ends well […]
Universities as factories
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The world according to Garegnani
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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Why not Keynes? Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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The order of inequality
Professor Tongdong Bai (whom I had the pleasure to meet in Shanghai and who kindly alerted me to his new book) has recently published a book called perhaps somewhat provocatively Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case. The book offers a reinterpretation of Confucian school’s writings. It is a very well-written, tightly argued text equally of interest […]

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