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Kenneth J. Arrow receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in Stockholm in 1972.
Associated Press; thumbnail, Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press, 2006 (receiving National Medal of Science)
Kenneth Arrow
Died on February 21, 2017 at age 95
One of the most brilliant economic minds of the 20th century, at 51 Mr. Arrow became the youngest economist ever to win a Nobel.
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