Social Choice and Individual Values

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Descriptive Summary Kenneth J. Arrow Papers, 1939-2011 Arrow, Kenneth J., 1921- 72.8 Linear Feet ca. 43,250 Items Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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The papers of Kenneth J. Arrow were donated to the Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library beginning in 1994.

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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 1942-1946 Weather Officer, US Army Air Corps (ret. Captain) 1947 Married Selma Schweitzer 1947-1949 Research Associate, Cowles Commission for Research in Economics 1948-1949 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago 1948- Consultant, the RAND Corporation 1949-1968 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) 1962-1963 Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers 1968-1979 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 1983-1986 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.

Collection Overview

The Kenneth J. Arrow papers, 1939-2011 (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.

The remainder of the collection consists of unprocessed additions to the collection. Boxlists and summary descriptions of this material can be found in the detailed description below. Some of these additions have restrictions. Please consult the reference archivist before coming to the library to use these materials.

Subject Headings

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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. Contents 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.

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 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 3 IEA Congress Addresses Congress VIII, India, 1986 4 IEA Congress VIII, India, 1986 Forthcoming Conferences Social Choice Session, 1989 Congress IX, Greece, 1989 Partnership Conference, 1990 Meade Conference, 1991 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 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 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.

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 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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 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.

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 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) 17 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.

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18 A- Boorman (includes Maurice Allais, Takeshi Amemiya, and Scott Boorman) 19 Boxer- Dasgupta (includes Noam Chomskey) 20 Dasgupta- Gibbons (includes Gerard Debreu, Aaron Douglas, Jacques Drèze, George Feiwel, Paul Fischbeck, Milton Friedman, and Victor Fuchs) 21 Ginsberg- Honkapohja (includes Beila Goldman, Stephen J. Gould, Jerry Green, Frank Hahn, Peter Hammond, John Harsanyi, and Jack Hirschleifer) 22 Hotelling- Ledyard (includes Harold Hotelling, Leonid Hurwicz, Michael Intriligator, Peter Kalman, Allen Kneese, John Krutilla, Tjalling Koopmans, David Kreps, Mordecai Kurz, and Guy Laroque) 23 Liebenstein- McAllister (includes Alain Lewis and Mark Machina) 24 McCloskey- O'Reilly (includes Donald McCloskey, Lionel 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) 25 O'Reilly-Stan (includes Terance O'Reilly, Prashant Parikh, Roy Radner, Sherwin Rosen, and Etyan Seshinski) 26 Starr-Z, Letters of Reference, Harvard Years-A-E (includes David Starret, and Ron Trosper) 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.

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 29 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 30 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 31 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 32 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) 33 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.

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 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 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 Department of Economics, 1974-77 Department of Economics, Macroeconomics Search, 1971 Department of Economics, Faculty Appointments, 1989-93 Faculty Council Elections, 1976 Harvard Move (negotiations and correspondence), 1966-67 Houses, 1970-74 International Studies Committee, 1976-77 Kirkland House, 1974-79 Miscellaneous, 1974-79 South Africa, 1979 Wells Prize, 1978 Women Hiring Practices, 1975 Harvard Overseers, 1986-91 Harvard Course Material Subseries Economics 205 Price and Allocation Theory 36 Economics 215: The Theory of Competitive Equilibrium, 1967 Economics 225: The Theory and Estimation of Production Functions, 1969 Economics 2010a, 1973 Liquidity Preference Miscellaneous Series, 1950-1993 (bulk 1970s-1993).

Comprised of the Prizes, Awards, and Honors Subseries, which includes correspondence surrounding his Nobel Prize award of 1970; the Personal (Arrow) Files Subseries, which includes biographical material and interviews, real estate activities, security clearance, and other private files; the Business and Publishers Subseries, which includes reprint permissions and correspondence with publishers; and the Referee Reports, and Book, Grant, and Other Reviews Subseries, which includes reviews of papers, books, and grants.

36 Prizes, Awards, and Honors Subseries Cambridge Honorary Degree, 1985 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1974-92 Graduate Faculties Alumni of Columbia University (GFA) award, 1982 International Award of the Indian Econometric Society, 1975 Jewish Hall of Fame, 1989 Neumann Theory Prize, 1986 Nobel Prize Royal Academy of Sciences speech, 1972 ceremonies, 1972 references to work and publications, 1972-73 Kuratorom and Nominations, 1982-92 nominations, 1972-78 nomination for Amartya Sen, 1986 nomination for W. Edwards Deming, 1991 Jubilee, 1991 contract symposium, 1988-90 American Nobel Anniversary Committee, 1990 Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1986 Sigma Xi, 1982 Washington University honorary degree, 1989 Personal (Arrow) Files Subseries Biographical material, 1968-72 Biographical sketch (includes photographs), 1975 German Television (interview), 1988-89 Long Ridge (real estate), 1978 Personal-miscellaneous, 1968-72 Personal security information, 1950 Townsend Harris Alumni Association, 1980-91 Who's Who in World Jewry, 1976-77 Business and Publishers Subseries Abt Books, 1982-88 Arthur D. Little, 1973 Basil Blackwell, 1982-83 Book Permissions, 1987-88 Elsevier, 1973-74 Harvard Book-author permissions, 1982-84 Holden Day, 1969-79 37 Holden Day, 1969-1979 (continued) Irwin, 1982-89 Italian Translation, 1985 Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978-89 Limits of Organization, 1983-88 Markham, 1963-70 North-Holland, 1975-88 Norton, 1973-74 Oxford University Press, 1990-93 Patent agreement and misc. contracts, 1979 Permissions, 1979-94 Popular papers, 1984 Princeton University Press, 1994 Resources for the Future, 1979-84 Routledge, 1989-92 Zygmunt Gebethner, 1975 Referee Reports, and Book, Grant, and Other Reviews Subseries Referee reports, 1978-93 (3 folders) Miscellaneous evaluations and reviews, 1980-85 Aizerman, M.A., and F.T. Aleskerov, Choice of Variants, 1985 Brenner, Harvey, The Effects of Health Care and Health Promotion on Health Status in the United States, 1989 Hahn, Frank, Risk, Information, and Quality Signals in Economic Theory, 1993 Myerson, Roger, Game Theory, 1991 Nozick, Robert, 1974 Partisan Review (correspondence), 1982 Thurow, Lester, Dangerous Currents, 1983 Accession (1998-0297), 1989-1997 2 Boxes

This addition to the Kenneth J. Arrow Papers consists of office files, chiefly correspondence and memoranda, the bulk of which document Arrow's involvement in public and academic affairs as well as economics between 1989 and 1997.

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1 Invitations Declined (2 folders) Berlin WBZ Lecture - March 1994 Brown for Governor Catastrophic Risk, Oct. 21-22, 1994 CEPR Search Dummett Review Empirica EPA Discount Rate Fuchs Symposium Fulbright - Arrow IEA: Rationality Conference, Turin, 1993 INDECON Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Center for Peace in the Middle East Jerusalem Summer School 1995 Jerusalem Summer School 1996 Jerusalem Summer Workshop 1994 MacArthur Economics Institute Monash Increasing Returns Conference NAPAP - National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration - Contingent Valuation National Research Council - Report Review Committee Nobel Democracy Symposium Radin Review Seltzer Lecture SUNY Stonybrook Uppsala Degrees RESTRICTED MATERIALS Chichilnisky vs. Wooders (5 folders) 2 Chichilnisky vs. Wooders (7 folders) Accession (2000-0222), 1977-1999 2 Boxes

The addition (2000-0222) (1,800 items, 3.0 linear ft.; dated 1977-1999) primarily contains professional correspondence and writings. The papers demonstrate Arrow's range of activities and responsibilities, especially as a speaker and conference attender. The addition also includes student and project files, including research conducted for the Office of Naval Research.

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1 Rand Graduate School P Correspondence R Correspondence Office of Naval Research Correspondence N Correspondence M Correspondence (1 of 2) M Correspondence (2 of 2) Correspondence K Correspondence H Hahn, Frank National Research Council (NRC): Report Review Committee COGEE Croatia Economic and Social Research Council (E.S.R.C.) Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) discrimination Lang, Serge Correspondence D L Correspondence Education Department Guttman Comment Harvard Overseers Hypothesis Japan Development Bank Symposium, Fall 1995 Jerusalem, 1997 Chichilnisky-Wooders (1 of 2) Chichilnisky-Wooders (2 of 2) MacArthur Foundation - Economics Monash University International Economic Association Presidency Minimum Wage Initiative Lieberman Festschrift Mitchell Madison Milan, May 1995 Monash University Visit 2 Invitations Declined (1 of 2) Invitations Declined (2 of 2) Handbooks Hong Kong Hebrew University (1 of 2) Hebrew University (2 of 2) American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting 1997 Guggenheim Geanakoplos, John Lin, Kuan Pin Lewis, Alain A. Huang, Peter H. Math reviews Papadopoulos, Nicholas Michael Radner, Roy Energy: The Next Twenty Years study group members Ohashi, Isao Kamoike, Osamu Sheshinski, Eytan Starrett, David A. Correspondence G Suppes forecasts Kendall, Henry W., World Bank Kurz, Mordecai Office of Naval Research, official contracts data Handbooks, Sheshinski Hewlett Packard Office of Naval Research, 1984-1985 budget Jewish Community Federation Rand Stanford Optimal Pricing of Natural Resources Economics 280 Office of Naval Research, 1981-1982 budget Office of Naval Research renewal, 1981-1982 Office of Naval Research Center (1 of 2) Office of Naval Research Center (2 of 2) Stan, Peter Urban Institute Office of Naval Research renewal, 1977-1978 project Arrow/Hahn book negotiations (Holden-Day / Oliver & Boyd) Arrow/Hahn plans for revision South Peninsula Campaign Cabinet U.S. Council of Economic Advisers - Civilian Technology Limits of Economic Rationality Office of Naval Research report reproduction Office of Naval Research annual proposal Office of Naval Research II Tulane Lecture Accession (2001-0004), 1980-2000 2 Boxes

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Accession (2002-0300), c. 1981-2002 3 Boxes

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Accession (2004-0128), 1986-2004 2 Boxes

The addition (2004-0128) (550 items, 0.8 lin. ft.; dated 1986-2004) contains professional correspondence, public statements, itineraries, and related professional materials.

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Accession (2005-0065), 1941-2003 5 Boxes

The addition (2005-0065) (2,100 items; 2.8 lin. ft.; dated 1941-2003) comprises primarily reports, statements, and depositions prepared by Arrow as a consultant or expert witness in legal cases and for regulatory commissions. Among the companies involved are Microsoft, Shell Oil, Verizon, IBM, and AT&T. Also includes diplomas, awards, and honorary degrees received by Arrow.

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Accession (2007-0214), 1978-2004 1 Box

The addition (2007-0214) (900 items; 1.5 lin. ft.; dated 1978-2004) includes reports, anti-trust court case files, Institute of Medicine materials, and other professional correspondence, articles, and statements.

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