Guide to the Kenneth J. Arrow Papers, 1939-2000
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleKenneth J. Arrow Papers,
1939-2000
Creator
Arrow, Kenneth J., 1921-
Extent
60.4 Linear Feet
ca. 37,800 Items
Repository
ca. 37,800 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
Copyright interests in the papers of Kenneth J. Arrow have
not been transferred to Duke University. For further information, see the
section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Provenance
The papers of Kenneth J. Arrow were donated to the Duke
University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library in 1994,
1995, and 2000.
Processing Information
Processed by: Ted Gayer, Spencer Banzhaf, and Claude Fernandez
Completed November 14, 1996
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
| 1921 | Born in New York, NY |
| 1940 | B.S., Mathematics, City College of New York |
| 1941 | M.A., Mathematics, Columbia University |
| 1942-46 | Weather Officer, US Army Air Corps (ret. Captain) |
| 1947 | Married Selma Schweitzer |
| 1947-49 | Research Associate, Cowles Commission for Research in Economics |
| 1948-49 | Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1948- | Consultant, the RAND Corporation |
| 1949-68 | Acting Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Economics and Statistics, Stanford University |
| 1951 | Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University |
| 1951 | Publication: Social Choice and Individual Values |
| 1954 | Publication (with G. Debreu): "Existence of Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy," Econometrica, vol. 22, pp. 265-290. |
| 1957 | Awarded John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economics Association (AEA) |
| 1962-63 | Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers |
| 1968-79 | Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| 1972 | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences |
| 1973 | President, American Economics Association (AEA) |
| 1980 to date | Professor of Economics and Operations Research, Stanford University |
| 1983-86 | President, International Economic Association (IEA) |
Arrow has also been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
[top]Collection Overview
The Kenneth J. Arrow papers, 1939-1995 (bulk 1980s-1995),
document primarily the latter part of his career as an economist, professor,
and Nobel Laureate. The collection provides a broad overview of his many
professional activities; administrative activities for various associations and
committees and for his universities; and political activism in research notes,
draft papers and speeches, and correspondence. Arrow's career is especially
distinguished by his contributions to the theory of social choice, including
his book
Social Choice and Individual Values,
published in 1951, and his contributions to general equilibrium theory. For
these achievements, Professor Arrow has been awarded the Johns Bates Clark
Medal (1957) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1972), which he shared
with Professor Sir John Hicks. With an eleven year interruption at Harvard
University from 1968 to 1979, Professor Arrow has spent the largest portion of
his career at Stanford University. He has served as president of the American
Economics Association and the International Economics Association, and has also
been a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of the larger and more
salient files in the collection include research notes on general equilibrium
theory in economics; consulting on global climate change and contingent
valuation; correspondence with Frank Hahn, Leonid Hurwicz, Alain Lewis, and
Lionel McKenzie; and notes from graduate courses with Harold Hotelling.
Although the collection contains primarily professional papers, there are some
personal files as well as some concerning politics and activism.
The
Conferences, Lectures, and Speeches Series
includes information on organizations such as the Santa Fe Institute, National
Bureau of Economic Research, Social Choice and Welfare Conference, American
Economics Association, and International Economics Association. General
equilibrium theory material is in scattered files not only in this series but
also in the Notes, Papers, and Research Series.
In the
Committees and Consulting Series are files on
three extended projects on economic growth and policy, global climate change,
and contingent valuation. Also, the American Economics Association,
International Economics Association, and the National Academy of Sciences are
represented. There is a subseries on economics journals.
The
Correspondence and Personal Files Series
includes correspondence with a number of eminent economists, including M.
Allais, G. Debreu, M. Friedman, F. Hahn, J. Harsanyi, L. Hurwicz, T. Koopmans,
L. McKenzie, R. Marschak, and R. Radner; with other scholars such as N.
Chomskey, S.J. Gould, and J. Hirschleifer; with politicians, including D.P.
Moynihan; as well as extensive notes and correspondence with some of Arrow's
Ph.D. students, including A. Lewis.
In the
Notes, Papers, and Research Series are notes
on production functions, stability, uncertainty; economic theory, optimization,
and decentralization; National Science Foundation grants;
Social Choice and Multicriterion
Decision-Making; and notes from courses with Harold Hotelling.
Departments of Economics are represented in the
Stanford and Harvard Series, and the
Miscellaneous Series has a folder on Arrow's
Nobel Prize. The
Politics and Activism Series contains files on
the Middle East, arms control (especially Economists against the Arms Race),
human rights, and UNESCO.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Harvard University.--Dept. of Economics.
- Stanford University.--Dept. of Economics.
- International Economics Association.
- Social choice.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Contingent valuation.
- Economists--United States.
- Social action.
- Equilibrium (Economics)
- Climatic changes.
- Hahn, Frank.
- Hurwicz, Leonid.
- Hotelling, Harold, 1895-
- Lewis, Alain A.
- McKenzie, Lionel W.
Detailed Description of Collection
Conferences, Lectures, and Speeches Series, 1971-1995 (bulk 1980s-1995).
Documents many of
Professor Arrow's public speaking engagements
and activities at conferences, especially after
1980. These include regular conferences organized by
the
American Economics Association, the
Econometrics Society, the
International Economics Association, the
National Bureau of Economic Research, the
Sante Fe Institute, and other institutions, as
well as other trips and engagements.
Box 1
Invitations Declined
Abrahms Lectures
Actuaries Club
American Economics Association (AEA)
Meeting,
Dallas,
1984
AEA
Economics Theory Session,
1989
1990
Meeting,
Anaheim,
1993
Meeting,
Boston,
1994 (Ely
Lecture)
Meeting,
Washington, DC,
1995
Arrow-
Hurwicz Workshop,
1977 (Informational Issues
in Decentralization)
Associated Students of
Stanford University (ASSU) Conference,
1984
Barcelona Lecture,
1990 (Excellence and
Equity in Education)
Basel Conference,
1987
Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory,
1984-85 (Rationality of Self and
Others)
Bellagio Conference,
1992
Camp Lecture,
1978
Camp Lectures,
1980 (Possibility of
Economic Policy)
Centennial Symposia,
1990 (Information
Explosion)
Center for Economic Policy Research,
1986-87 (Economics of Public Debt)
CERES Conference on Global Food and Technology Issues in
the 21st Century,
Williamsburg,
1990
Box 2
Chinese Information Science,
1992
China Trip Diary,
1979
Collegium
Budapest,
1993
Complexity Workshop,
1986
Contingent Valuation Method Conference,
1984
Corporation Conference,
1987
Cowles Symposium,
1981-86 (Cowles in the History of
Economic Thought)
Differential Information, Market Failure, and Public
Policy,
1977
Disorder and Order,
1981
Eastern Europe Conference,
1989
Ecology and Economics,
1988
Econometrics Society Meeting,
Barcelona,
1990
Econometrics Society Meeting,
Korea,
1991
Economic Conflict Program, Office of Naval Research,
1976
Economics of Income Distribution,
1978
Economics of National Security,
1986-88
Edge Lecture
Elster Colloquium,
1985-86
Elster Central Bank Conference,
1992
Environmental Policy Decisions,
1990 (Environmental Policy
As Political Conflict)
FACS Institute for Journalists,
Asilomar, CA,
1989
Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche e Tecniche
(FAST) Meeting,
Milan,
1992
Florence,
1986
Florence Bioethical Conference,
1992
Ford Foundation, Future and the Welfare
State,
1984
Friedman Panel,
1987
General Equilibrium Conference,
1993
German Business Congress,
1993-95
German Trip,
1990
Greater Talent Network,
1988
Grunberg Lecture,
1994 (Economic Transition
Speed and Scope)
Hamburg Seminar,
1989
Hao Ran Foundation Workshop,
1989-90 (On the Socialist Economic
Reform) (Incentive Problems in the Transition in Socialist Countries)
Harsanyi Conference,
Berkeley,
1990-91 (Ethics in Business Contribution of
John Harsanyi)
Health Economic Research Organization (HERO)
Session,
1973
Hicks Conference,
1988-90 (Certainty Equivalence and
Inequivalence for Prices)
Hong Kong Lecture,
1993
Hoover Anti-Trust Conference,
1984
Hoover Conference on Economic Transition,
1991
Hungarian Trip,
1983
International Economics Association
(IEA)
Conference,
1984
Conference on Incomes Policy,
Mexico,
1985
Congress Addresses
Box 3
IEA
Congress Addresses
Congress VIII,
India,
1986
Box 4
IEA
Congress VIII,
India,
1986
Forthcoming Conferences
Social Choice Session,
1989
Congress IX,
Greece,
1989
Partnership Conference,
1990
Meade Conference,
1991
Box 5
IEA
Congress X, Information Economics,
Moscow,
1992
Congress X, Graduate Education,
1992
Income Inequality Conference,
1993
India Trip,
1986-87
Industrial Ecology,
1991
Innovation Diffusion,
1986
Iowa Lecture,
1992
International Environmental Policy Conference,
1993
Interpersonal Comparability Conference,
1986-88
International Society for Inventory Research,
Economics of Inventory Management,
Budapest,
1988
Jerusalem Summer Workshop,
1992
Jerusalem Summer Workshop,
1993
Karlsruhe Seminar,
1988-90
Keynesian Workshop,
1978 (The State of
Keynesian Economics)
Keystone Center,
1990-91
Knoer Seminar,
1978 (Economies of
Distributions)
Korea Development Institute,
1991
Kyung Hee University,
1984
Lazarfeld Lecture,
Columbia University,
1993 (Methodological
Individualism An Adequate Basis for the Social Sciences?)
Long Term Productivity Trends,
1989
Management Development Program,
1986
Manne General Equilibrium Workshop,
1984
Markets for Information, Ownership, and Control,
1988-89
Maxwell Lecture,
McGill University,
1992
Mexico Lecture,
1990 (Transitions from
Socialism)
Michigan/Sante Fe Instititute (SFI) Outpost,
1992
Miscellaneous Seminars,
1981-83
Moscow Trip,
1990
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,
1985-86
National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Academy
Forum,
1973-79
National Academy of Sciences (NAS),
Industrial Ecology Conference,
1991
National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER)
Conference,
1971-72
Economic Fluctuations Meeting,
1987-88
Box 6
NBER
Conference on Econometrics and Mathematical Economics,
1990-91
Economic Growth Conference,
1991
General Equilibrium Conference,
1992
Nemetria, Etica Ed Economia,
1993
Neuberger Conference on the Structure and Behavior of
Economic Organizations,
1992
Nevada Kenney Talk,
1987
Nonlinear Analysis Congress,
1991
North Carolina Trip,
1988
Notre Dame Income Distribution Conference,
1992 (The Changing
Distribution of Income in an Open US Economy)
Office of Naval Research Symposium,
1986
Olin Lecture,
1988 (The Economics of
Law)
Operations Research Symposium,
1987
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) Conference,
1989
ORSA/TIMS, Epistemic Uncertainty in Rational
Decision,
San Francisco,
1992
Paris Trip,
1986
Pittsburgh Lecture, Philosophy of Science,
1990
Politico-Military Decision Making Workshop,
1985
Pomona Lecture,
1988 (Economics and Ethics
of Income Distribution)
Poverty Seminar
Queens University Talk,
1974-78
Royal Economic Society Conference,
London,
1991
St. Norbert Conference,
1990
Sabre Foundation,
1989
San Diego State Talk,
1990
San Francisco Mathematics Collaborative,
1986
Santa Clara Lecture,
1985
Santa Fe Institute
Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy,
1987
The Economy as an Evolving, Complex System,
1988
The Economy as an Evolving, Complex System,
1989
Global Security Workshop,
1989
Growth and Cities Workshop,
1991
Workshop on Learning,
1991
Biology and Economics; Theoretical Computation in
Economics,
1992
Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop,
1992
Increasing Returns Workshop,
1992
Organizational Adaption and Learning Workshop,
1993
Shell Lecture,
1983
Sienna Conference,
1991
Southern Economic Association Conference,
1981
Social Choice and Welfare Conference,
Caen,
1991 (Political Conditions
for Economic Reform in Eastern Europe)
Socialist Agriculture,
Budapest,
1990
Southern Economic Association,
1981
Spoleto, Padua,
1987 (Information as a
Service Industry)
Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN),
Conference on the Barriers to the Negotiated Resolution of Conflict,
1992-94
Box 7
Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN),
Conference on the Barriers to the Negotiated Resolution of Conflict,
1992-94
(2 folders)
Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics (SITE):
Workshop on Irreversibility,
1992
Workshop,
1993
Workshop on Economics of Inequality,
1993
Workshop,
1994
Strategic Economic Decisions Conference,
1992
Stonybrook Game Theory Seminar,
1992
Taiwan/
Hong Kong Trip,
1981
Tanner Lecture:
Oxford,
1983 (The
Welfare-Relevant Boundaries of the Individual)
Harvard,
1985 (The Unknown
Other)
Harvard (audio tapes),
1985
Stanford,
1986
Technion Guardians,
1992 (Israel's Economy in
the Last Decade)
The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS)
Meeting,
Rio de Janeiro,
1991
Theories of Economic Justice Seminar
Transfer Programs,
1978
Trinity University Lecture,
1984 (My Development as an
Economist)
University of Calgary Speech,
1978 (Rational Discourse
and Conflict in Values and Judgment)
University of California, Davis Lecture,
1979
Weizmann Institute Dinner,
1992
Western Economic Association Meetings,
San Francisco,
1992
Western Economic Association Meetings,
1993
Western Michigan Talk,
1988-89 (The State of Economic
Science)
Williams College Lecture,
1992
Williamson Organization Conference,
1991 (Scale Returns in
Communication and Elite Control of Organizations)
Wingspread Conference,
1982 (Planning and
Uncertainty)
Wisdom Toward the 21st Century Symposium,
Osaka,
1983 (The International
Economic Order of the 21st Century)
World Health Organization, Meeting on the
Economics of Tropical Diseases,
1986
Committees and Consulting Series, 1980s-1990s.
Includes both administrative work for various committees and
institutions, as well as work as a paid consultant on several projects. The
latter includes three extended projects, one on economic growth and policy for
the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, one
on climate change for the
National Academy of Sciences and one on
contingent valuation (the use of surveys to value public goods) for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
The former includes work for the
American Economics Association and
International Economics Association, as well
as for the
City College of New York, the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
RAND, the
Santa Fe Institute, and other organizations.
It also includes a Journals Subseries with
Arrow's work on various editorial boards.
Box 7
Abt Associates
Abt Jobs
Aix-Marseille Center/GREQE
Alaska-National Energy Policy
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Western Center
Box 8
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Western Center
American Association for the Advancement of
Science
American Association of University
Professors
American Economics Association
(AEA)
Committee on USSR Relations
Committee on Political
Discrimination
Committee on Graduate Training
AEA/Social Sciences Research
Council
China Exchange
South African Students
Miscellaneous
American Foreign Policy Inc.
American Philosophical Society
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of
Technology
American Statistical Association
Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute
Bioeconomics Society
Bishops
Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching
Bundeskanzler Fellowship
Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research
Economic Growth and Policy
Box 9
Center for Foundational Studies
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
(CORE)
Center for Risk Analysis
Center for Study in Israel
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie
Mathématique Appliquées a la Planification
(CEPREMAP)
City College of New York
City College-Minorities Center
City College-Scholarship
endowment
Charles River Associates
Committee for Economic Recovery
Delhi School of Economics
East-West Center
Econometrics Society
Econometrics Society-continued
Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC)
Einstein Archives
Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI)
Encyclopedia of Economics
The Esmee Fairbairn Research
Center
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD)
European University Institute
Fair Share
The Electric Rate Structure in Massachusetts
Federation of American
Scientists
Fels Center of Government
Food Safety Council, Social and Economic
Committee: Principles and Processes for Making Food Safety
Decisions
Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk, and
Decision Theory (FUR)
Haldi Associates
Institute for Economic Theory
Institut d'Etudes Politques de
Paris
Institute of Medicine
(2 folders)
Box 10:
Institute of Medicine Committee on
Environment
International Economics Association
(IEA)
IEA-AEA
Booklet (The
IEA: Past and Future)
Correspondence
(Luc Fauvel,
Jean Paul Fitoussi,
Patricia Hillebrandt,
Michael Kaser,
Amartya Sen,
Paulo Sylos Labini,
Victor Urquidi)
Box 11
IEA
Financial Advisory Committee -
UNESCO
International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis
International Society for Inventory
Research
Irvine Advisory
Israel English Language College
Jerusalem,
Institute for Ethics and
Economics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Effectiveness of the
Army
King's College
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation
and Technology (MERIT)
MacArthur Foundation
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
(3 folders)
Box 12
NAS
Budget and Internal Affairs -
Government-University-Industry Roundtable
Human Rights Committee
Markets and Organizations
Minorities
Nuclear War Committee (Estes Award)
Population Statement
Status of Mathematics
National Research Council-Climatic Impact
(5 folders)
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Regulation
National Committee for Full
Employment
National Science Foundation
(NSF)
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
(NAPAP)
Box 13
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP)
(3 folders)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
(NOAA)
Notes and Drafts
New Palgrave
New Palgrave-Money and Finance
Northeast Asia Forum
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Paris Ph.D.
Poverty Institute
Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace
Price Institute
RAND-Discount Rate
RAND-Graduate School
Resources for the Future (RfF)-Role of Analysis in the
Policy Process
Riverside Case
Santa Fe Institute
Economics Program, General
Box 14
Santa Fe Institute
(20 folders)
Santa Fe Institute-Summer
Program
Seidman Award Selection
Committee
Sino-American Market Information Research Center at
Stanford (SAMICS)
Sloan Behavioral Economics Program
Society for the Advancement of Social-Economics
(SASE)
Stanford Center on Conflict and
Negotiation
Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics
(SITE)
Tinbergen Institute/
International Journal of Development
Planning Literature
USSR Institute of Control
Sciences
Visitation Committee for Graduate Program, Review of
Department of Economics at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Western Economic Association Nominating
Committee
Wharton Risk and Decision Processes Center
Advisory Committee
Box 15
Wharton Risk and Decision Processes Center
Advisory Committee
World Bank
World Institute for Development Economics Research
(WIDER)
World Resources Institute
Yale Program on Non-Profit
Organizations
Journals Subseries
American Economic
Review
American Prospect
Bell Journal
Business in the Contemporary
World
Complexity
Economics and
Philosophy
Fundamentals of
Economics
Group Decision and Negotiation
Journal
Journal of
Complexity
Journal of Corporate and Industrial
History
Journal of Health
Economics
Journal of Mathematical
Economics
Journal of Official
Statistics
Industrial and Corporate
Change
Information Economics and
Policy
Lux Mundi
Mathematics in
Education
Mathematics of Operations
Research
Organization Science
Philosophy and Public
Affairs
Review of Economics and
Statistics
Science
Society for Research in
Economics
Stochastic Analysis and
Applications
Politics and Activism Series, 1974-1994.
Contains files of
Professor Arrow's personal political
activities. These include especially work for peace in the
Middle East, for arms control, in support of
human rights and dissidents, and with other causes. These are collected in the
Middle East, Arms Control, Human Rights and Miscellaneous Involvements
Subseries, respectively. It also includes a
UNESCO Subseries for his work for that
organization.
Box 15
Middle East Subseries
American Professors for Peace in the Middle East
(APPME) (
"Oil and the Arab-Israeli Power
Balance"
by
Arrow),
1977-90
Beyond War,
1987-91
International Center for Peace in the Middle
East,
1988-91
Israel Democracy Institute (IDI),
1990-92
Israel-Diaspora Institute (IDI),
1990
Mid-East Center for Economic and Institutional
Development,
1989-90
Middle East Policy (Includes
correspondence with
George McGovern),
1992
Arms Control Subseries
Center for International Security and Arms
Control,
1985-90
Coalition for a Comprehensive Test Ban,
1993
Economics of Arms and Disarmament,
1989-91
Economics of Arms Reduction,
1991-93
Economists Against the Arms Race,
1987-93
Box 16
Economists Against the Arms Race,
1987-93
(5 folders)
Haiffa Conference,
1994
Notre Dame Conference (
"The Basic Economics of Arms
Reduction"
and
"A Note on the Peace Dividend and
Reallocation of Knowledge Skills"
by
Arrow),
1990-91
National Research Council (NRC)-Nuclear
War Committee,
1987-93
Union of Concerned Scientists,
1982-85
Human Rights Subseries
Aurora Foundation,
1987
Baha'i in
Iran,
1982-83
Chili,
1976-79
Committee for Concerned Scientists,
1981-87
Committee for International Academic
Freedom,
1992
Dissidents,
1974-91
Dissidents-
Ida Nudel,
1978-79
El Salvador and
Central America,
1984-90
South Africa,
1988
UNESCO Subseries, 1970s
(3 folders)
UNESCO Subseries
(9 folders)
Miscellaneous Involvements Subseries
American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy,
1982-87
Clean Air Statement by Nobel Laureates,
1989
Clinch River Nuclear Breeder Reactor,
1983
Clinton Campaign,
1992
Current Wisdom,
1988
Dartmouth Prospect,
1993
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee,
1975-78
Democratic Study Group,
1983
Drash,
1987
Earth Day,
1990
Economic Conversion Center,
1993
Economic Security Seminar,
1991
Food and Disarmament International,
1981-87
Gore, Sen. Albert (Economics Lecture),
1990-91
Heritage of Mankind,
1980-91
Hillel,
1980-92
Institute for Civil Justice,
1980-87
NAACP Legal Defense Fund-
DuPont Case,
1993
National Committee on American Foreign Policy,
Inc.,
1981
National Institute of Economics and Law,
1982-83
Nova Specs,
1987-89
Nuclear Reactor Correspondence,
1974
Oregon Discrimination Case,
1983
Planned Parenthood,
1982
Proposition 35-Balanced Budget Amendment,
1984
Public Interest Economics,
1981-85
Public Statements,
1985-94
Real Peace,
1988
Correspondence and Personal Files Series, 1980s-1990s.
Contains files on various individuals. While the series is
characterized mostly by correspondence, some files are primarily correspondence
with the person, while others are primarily
correspondence about the person, such as letters
of recommendation or tenure revues.
RESTRICTED
Box 18
A-
Boorman (includes
Maurice Allais,
Takeshi Amemiya, and
Scott Boorman)
Box 19
Boxer-
Dasgupta (includes
Noam Chomskey)
Box 20
Dasgupta-
Gibbons (includes
Gerard Degrew,
Aaron Douglas,
Jacques Drèze,
George Feiwel,
Paul Fischbeck,
Milton Friedman, and
Victor Fuchs)
Box 21
Ginsberg-
Honkapohja (includes
Beila Goldman,
Stephen J. Gould,
Jerry Green,
Frank Hahn,
Peter Hammond,
John Harsanyi, and
Jack Hirschleifer)
Box 22
Hotelling-
Ledyard (includes
Howard Hotelling,
Leonid Hurwicz,
Michael Intriligator,
Peter Kalman,
Allen Kneese,
John Krutilla,
Tjalling Koopmans,
David Kreps,
Mordecai Kurz, and
Guy Laroque)
Box 23
Liebenstein-
McAllister (includes
Alain Lewis and
Mark Machina)
Box 24
McCloskey-
O'Reilly (includes
Donald McCloskey,
Lieonel McKenzie,
Jacob and Robert Marschak,
Andrew Mas-Colell,
Eric Maskin,
Paul Milgrom,
Hervé Moulin,
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Roger Myerson,
Marc Nerlov, and
Terance O'Reilley)
Box 25
O'Reilly-Stan (includes
Terance O'Reilly,
Prashant Parikh,
Roy Radner,
Sherwin Rosen, and
Etyan Seshinski)
Box 26
Starr-Z, Letters of Reference,
Harvard Years-A-E (includes
David Starret, and
Ron Trosper)
Box 27
Letters of Reference,
Harvard Years-F-Z
Notes, Papers, and Research Series, 1939-1994 (bulk 1972-1994).
This series will likely be of most interest to scholars of
Professor Arrow's contributions to economic theory. While, like the other
series, the bulk of this series dates after
1970, it does include files from earlier periods. The
Class Notes and Theses Subseries contains notes from his undergraduate courses
at
City College of New York and graduate courses
at
Columbia University, including notes from
Professor H. Hotelling's course in
Mathematical Economics and a penultimate draft of his Masters Thesis. It also
includes notes on meteorology in preparation for his work in the
Army Air Corps. A subseries on Notes and
Papers by
Arrow also contains earlier work. The most
extensive files in this subseries include notes on optimization and
decentralization, a
National Science Foundation project on
production functions, stability, and uncertainty.
The rest of the series contains work dating after
1970. The Notes for papers
by
Arrow Subseries contains drafts and notes for
specific papers. The Ongoing Grants Subseries contains several projects funded
by the
National Science Foundation and the
Office of Naval Research. The Notes Subseries
contains files of notes relating to various topics, but seemingly unconnected
to any specific paper. The last subseries, Festschrift and papers in the
history of economic thought, contains files on those activities.
Box 28
Class Notes and Theses (City College of NY and Columbia) Subseries, 1939-1943
1939 (?) Philosophy Classes (Nature of Mathematics,
Philosophy of Mathematics, Consistency of a Mathematical System)
1939-40 Honors Essays (Quaternions and Mathematical
Statistics)
1940 (?) Educational Psychology (Mexican
Civilization)
1940 Masters Thesis (Stochastic Processes, under
Harold Hotelling), drafts
1940 (?) Economics of Social Insurance (Actuarial
Basis of Unemployment Insurance) and Mathematical Economics (with
Harold Hotelling)
1940-41 Theory of Functions (Jordan Separation Theorem
and Prime Number Theorem)
1941-42 Current Types of Economic Theory
1943 Meteorology
Notes, Papers by Arrow, and Papers by Others Subseries, 1950-1978
"Allocation of Risk Bearing"
by
Arrow
Arrow reprints (
"Alternative Approaches to the Theory of
Choice in Risk-Taking Situations,"
1952,
"Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of
Medical Care,"
1963,
"Comments on Dusenberry's The Portfolio
Approach to the Demand for Money and Other Assets,"
1963,
"Control in Large Organizations,"
1964 )
Equilibrium optimality,
1960 and
1968
Equilibrium and uniqueness (includes correspondence
with
Frank Hahn)
"The Firm in General Equilibrium
Theory"
by
Arrow,
1969
Granger, C.W.J.-reprints
Optimal growth in linear models,
1965
Optimal growth,
1965-67, 1974, 1978
Optimization and Decentralization,
1950-60
(notes, including “on marginal cost pricing,”
and “convergence of the limiting form of the gradient method;”
correspondence with
William Gorman and
Leonid Hurwicz; paper by
Morton Slater; paper by
Arrow and
Hurwicz,
"Decentralization and Computation and
Resource Allocation;"
paper by
Arrow
"Optimization, Decentralization, and
Internal Pricing in Business Firms"
)
Production functions
NSF proposal,
1960-64
Chenery-
Solow proposal (project on production
functions),
1964-70
Bibliography,
1969
CES fits
Elasticities
Embodiment,
1962-66
Learning-by-doing (includes correspondence with
Joan Robinson),
1962-68
Murata,
1966
NSF reporting,
1964-65
Non-neutral progress,
1968
Relations to growth models,
1968
Statistical methods,
1965
Recognizing the Maximum of a Sequence, by
John Gilber and
Frederick Mosteller,
1966
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Stability I ,
1950s and
1960s
(includes notes; papers and drafts by
R.W. Clower,
David Gale,
Takashi Negishi,
Trout Rader,
Stanley Reiter, and
Robert Wilson; and paper by
Arrow and
Hurwicz,
"Some Remarks on the Equilibria of Economic
Systems"
)
Stability II,
1950s and 1960s
(includes notes; notes from
Maurice Allais; correspondence with
Hurwicz; papers by
Herbert Scarf,
Frank Hahn,
Hahn and
Negishi,
Lionel McKenzie,
Peter Newman; and paper
Arrow and
Hurwicz,
"Competitive Stability Under Weak Gross
Substitutability"
)
Stability III,
1950s and 1960s
(notes, including “unique stable equilibrium with one
inferior good;”; lectures; correspondence with
Hurwicz; papers by
Clower,
Hahn,
Negishi)
Uncertainty I,
1960s
(includes correspondence with
G.O. Bierwag,
William Brainard,
Jacques Drèze,
Lucien Foldes,
Alvin Klevorick, and others; draft by
Arrow
"Optimal Allocation of Risk
Bearing"
)
Uncertainty II,
1960s
(drafts; paper by Arrow,
"Aspects of Theory of Risk
Bearing"
)
Uncertainty III,
1960s
(notes, including “theory of flood control;”
paper by
Henry Allen Latané)
Uncertainty IV,
1960s
(paper by
Arrow and
Robert Lind
"Uncertainty and the Valuation of Public
Investment Decisions"
)
Uncertainty V,
1960s
(notes, including “adverse selection”; notes
from
Gerard Debreu and
Leo Tornquist; lectures; drafts; paper by
Richard Nelson)
Notes for papers by Arrow Subseries, 1973-1994
Collected Papers of
Arrow
correspondence
head notes
pictures
The Demand for Information and the Distribution of
Income,
1985-86
The Division of Labor in the Economy, The Polity, and
Society
The Economics of
1984,
1984
Economic Science in the Future,
1990
Economic Theory of Organization
Energy
The Short View and the Long,
1985
Equilibrium in Economics,
1987-90
Excellence and Equity in Higher Education,
1990-93
General Economic Equilibrium,
1973
The Genesis of Dynamic Systems Governed by Metzler
Matrices,
1976
Income Testing and Social Welfare
Informational Equivalence of Signals
Information and Economic Behavior,
1973
Innovation in Large and Small Firms
An Interview with
Kenneth J. Arrow (by
Jerry Kelly),
1986
Is the World Going Socialist?
The Limits of the Market in Resource Allocation (with
Steven Shavell and
Janet Yellen),
1976
Microeconomic Simulation Models
Comments
Neoclassical Theory and its Discontents,
1993-94
Notes on Expectations Equilibria in Bayesian Settings
(with
Jerry Green),
1973
On a Theorem of Arrow
Comment,
1974
Origins of the Impossibility Theorem,
1991
Optimal Pricing, Use, and Exploration of Uncertain
Natural Resource Stocks (with
Sheldon Chang),
1978
Proposed Reforms of the Economic System of Information
and Decision in the
USSR
(with Edmund Phelps),
1990
A Production Function for the Repairman Problem (with
David Levhari and
Eytan Sheshinski),
1970
Rationality of Self and Others in an Economic System,
1986-88
Rate of Discount on Investments with Imperfect Capital
Markets (notes from
Martin Feldstein)
Search, Equilibrium, and Information (with
Michael Rothschild),
1973
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Social Choice and Multicriterion
Decision-Making (with
Hervé Reynaud),
1987
Spatial Allocation of Non-Educational Public
Expenditure/Public Investment for Optimal Development
Technical Information, Returns to Scale, and the
Existence of Competitive Equilibrium,
1985-86
Uncertainty in Energy Planning,
1979
Handbook of Mathematical Economics,
1976-79
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Handbook Series,
1979-93
Ongoing Grants Subseries, 1973-1992
National Science Foundation
(NSF)
Unification of Comparative Statics and Comparative
Dynamics in General Equilibrium Models (with
Peter Kalman),
1974-77
Social Associations Under Varying Market Structures
(with
Mordecai Kurz),
1980
Economic Interaction under Bounded Rationality and
Limited Memory,
1986-92
Intrafirm and Interfirm Information Flows,
1982-84
Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis (TARA),
1982-87
Imperfect Competition and Price Stability in
Competitive Equilibrium (with
Frank Hahn),
1987
Informational and Organizational Impacts on
Productivity (with
Paul David, et al.),
1987-91
Information as an Economic Commodity (with
Kurz and Robert Aumann),
1990-91
Dynamic Pricing Policies: Dupoly Equilibrium and
Information (with
Eytan Sheshinski),
1989-93
Office of Naval Research (ONR),
1979-91
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ONR
Mark Machina Article,
1983
Urban Institute,
1973-76
Notes Subseries, 1972-1985, undated
Articles-
Kevin McCabe et al.,
Vernon Smith,
Daniel Kahneman,
Elliot Montroll,
Marcello de Cecco,
Partha Dasgupta and
Joseph Stiglitz,
Seppo Honkopohja,
Michael Lovell
Classical Famine,
1983
Cournot Oligopoly,
1979
Decentralization
Decentralization II
Duopoly
Dynamic Monopoly Pricing
Dynamic Systems
The Economy of
Israel,
1984
Energy,
1972-79, 1985
Excerpt from The Collected Mathematical Papers of
Arthur Cayley
Inflation-Remarks by
William Fellner and
Alan Greenspan,
1974
Miscellaneous Notes
Nonlinear Metzler System
OPEC Pricing
Demand Reduction
Organization Theory Group
Permanent Income as Welfare
Racial Discrimination
Social Choice-Correspondence and Notes
Tax Reform
Technology Assessment
Value of Life
Festschrift and Papers on the History of Economics Subseries, 1970s to 1990s
Arrow, Kenneth-Festschrift
Beckman, Martin-Festschrift
Bergson, Abram-Festschrift
Black, Duncan-Festschrift
Borch, Karl-Festschrift
Ehrlich, Alexander-Festschrift
Galbraith, John
Kenneth-Festschrift
Hahn, Frank-Festschrift
Harsanyi, John-Festschrift
Hotelling, Harold-Festschrift
Houthakker, Henk-Festschrift
Hurwicz, Leonid-Festschrift
Kantorovich, L.V.-Festschrift
Karlin, Sam-Festschrift
Krutilla, John-Festschrift
Lerner, Abba-Festschrift
Labini, Sylos-Festschrift
Lipinski, Edward-Festschrift
Reder, Mel-Festschrift
Robinson, Joan-Festschrift
Shubik, Martin-Festschrift
Suppes, Patrick-Festschrift
Vickrey, William-Volume of Collected
Papers
Von Neumann, John-Festschrift
Keynes's Treatise on
Probability
Klassiker der Nationalokonomie
(Edgeworth's Ethics and
Ricardo's Work as Viewed by Later
Economists)
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Marshak, Jacob-Portrait
Marshak Recollections
Thorstein Veblen as an Economic
Theorist
Stanford and Harvard Series, 1948-1994 (bulk 1970-1994).
Includes committee, consulting, volunteer, and other work for his
universities and their economics departments. It also includes lectures notes
and reading materials for courses that
Arrow has taught at
Stanford and
Harvard. It is comprised of the
Stanford University Subseries, the
Stanford Economics Department Subseries, the
Stanford Course Material Subseries, the
Harvard University and Economics Department
Subseries, and the
Harvard Course Material Subseries.
Box 33
Stanford University Subseries
Alumni
1985-87
Bakersfield,
1987
New York,
1983
Centennial Campaign,
1986-89
Entering Student Talk,
1983
Ethics and Society Postdoctoral Fellowship,
1986-92
Extradepartmental Education,
1984-85
Engineering Research Center Proposal,
1985
Faculty Report,
1983-84
Football Recruiting,
1990
Fundamental Standard
(Stanford Speech Code),
1989
Gardner Fellowship,
1985-89
Ground Rent Task Force,
1985-89
Box 34
Health and Safety Review,
1988-90
Homeowners Governance,
1989
Hoover Institution,
1981-94
(2 folders)
Housing,
1981-83
Humanities Center,
1983-91
Humanities and Sciences Council,
1986
Mathematical Sciences Education,
1984-85
Medical Non-Tenure,
1986-87
Public Service Requirement,
1990
Reagan Library,
1986
Research Committee,
1992
Seltzer Endowed Book Fund,
1988
South Africa,
1986
Stanford Negotiations and Correspondence,
1974-79
Stanford Retreat,
1990
Stanford Senate,
1987-89
Stanford Senate, Western Culture Debate,
1985-88
Stanford Summer,
1979
Stanford University Project for Environmental
Research (SUPER),
1990
TSEMI,
1991
Stanford, Department of Economics Subseries
Alternative Approaches Field,
1986-88
Building,
1991
Department Computer,
1988
Economics Department (Memos and Meetings),
1983-94
Environmental Economics Appointment,
1990-92
Japan Trade Studies,
1985
Box 35
Job Market,
1979
Operations Research,
1990-91
Political Economics,
1985-86
Population Studies
Visiting Scholars,
1986
Stanford Course Material Subseries
Economics 186/Philosophy 077: The Ethics of Social
Decisions,
1992-93
Economics 282/Operations Research 363: Theory of
Information and Organization,
1984-91
Economics 386/Operations Research 366:
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict Resolution,
1981-93
Economics 388/Operations Research 369:
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Risk Management,
1981-91
Optimal Economics Growth,
1967
Statistics Examinations,
1948-66
Harvard University and Department of Economics Subseries
Audit,
1981
Board of Syndics