Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention
- K. Arrow
- 1962
Economics
Invention is here interpreted broadly as the production of knowledge. From the viewpoint of welfare economics, the determination of optimal resource allocation for invention will depend on the…
The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing
- K. Arrow
- 1 June 1962
Economics
It is by now incontrovertible that increases in per capita income cannot be explained simply by increases in the capital-labor ratio. Though doubtless no economist would ever have denied the role of…
Social Choice and Individual Values
- K. Arrow
- 1 November 1951
Economics
Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new…
EXISTENCE OF AN EQUILIBRIUM FOR A COMPETITIVE ECONOMY
A. Wald has presented a model of production and a model of exchange and proofs of the existence of an equilibrium for each of them. Here proofs of the existence of an equilibrium are given for an…
Essays in the theory of risk-bearing
- K. Arrow
- 1958
Economics
Report of the NOOA Panel on Contingent Valuation
- K. Arrow, K. Arrow, H. Schuman
- 1993
Medicine
The P&nel concludes that Cv studies produce astimator reliable enaugh t o be the starting point for a judicial o r administrative detenninatian of natucal rerource dumgea -including lost ~asnive-uae valua.
Aspects of the theory of risk-bearing
- K. Arrow, Yrjö Jahnssonin säätiö
- 1 May 1966
Economics
The Theory of Discrimination
- K. Arrow
- 1 October 1971
Economics
A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare
- K. Arrow
- 1 August 1950
Economics
Journal of Political Economy
IN A capitalist democracy there are essentially two methods by which social choices can be made: voting, typically used to make "political" decisions, and the market mechanism, typically used to make…
The Role of Securities in the Optimal Allocation of Risk-bearing
- K. Arrow
- 1 April 1964
Economics
The theory of the optimal allocation of resources under conditions of certainty is well-known. In the present note, an extension of the theory to conditions of subjective uncertainty is considered.
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