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“From warfare to welfare”: Contextualising Arrow and Schelling's models of racial inequalities (1968–1972)

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  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche
  • Lauren Larrouy

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This paper focuses on Arrow and Schelling's contributions to the study of racial inequality in the late 1960s. We start from the authors’ account of the origin of their work. Then, we locate the “material origin” of the models at the RAND Corporation in the late 1960s and show how it relates to the transfer of the RAND tool-box to the study of welfare issues. Finally, we describe how Arrow's and Schelling's modelling strategies relate to their conception of “science for action,” inherited from their “warfare” work.

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  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche & Lauren Larrouy, 2017. "“From warfare to welfare”: Contextualising Arrow and Schelling's models of racial inequalities (1968–1972)," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(6), pages 1355-1387, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:24:y:2017:i:6:p:1355-1387
    DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2017.1381135
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