We have to be willing to say that there are things we cannot know.
Economists
Kenneth Arrow
Born 1921, New York. Proved no voting system satisfies all fairness conditions simultaneously. Co-proved general equilibrium existence. Nobel 1972 at 51, youngest ever. Pioneer of information economics.
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