Kenneth Arrow and the changing economics of health care.

Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care. 1963.

Kenneth Arrow and the birth of health economics.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization | February 2004, 82 (2) This section looks back to some of the ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. William D. Savedoff reviews the 1963 paper by Kenneth Arrow that launched the discipline of health economics; extracts from the...

A Dynamic analysis of Health care supply and demand management: A Case Study Hospitals of Social Security Organization

Background: The outlook for hospital care is changing rapidly. Supply and demand stimuli in the health service system are changing dramatically. The health department of the Social Security Administration has also been challenged by the growing number of patients. This study was conducted to help this organization with the aim of designing a conceptual causal model of the interaction between su...

Remembering a Giant in Economics: Kenneth J. Arrow (1922-2017).

Kenneth J. Arrow (1922–2017) substantially transformedmany areas of economics. His doctoral dissertation [1] redefined the field of social choice with his famous “impossibility theorem,” leading him to receive the Economics Nobel Prize in 1972. He made major contributions in general equilibrium theory, operations research, and statistics. But perhaps in no field of economic thinking did he have...

A Minute with Kenneth J. Arrow

In each issue, Algorithmic Finance features a brief interview with one member of our advisory or editorial boards or another leading academic or practitioner. These brief conversations are intended to provide a glimpse of their current thinking. In this issue, we talk with Kenneth J. Arrow. Kenneth J. Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, emeritus...