Kenneth Arrow

Thinkers1921 to 2017Economist

Works

  • Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care, American Economic Review, 1963

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One of the founders of modern economic theory, known for general equilibrium, social choice, and the economics of information. His 1963 paper on medical care is the usual starting point of the modern literature on moral hazard: insurance changes the behavior of the insured, which limits what can be insured.

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