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==Personal life and death== Arrow was a brother to the economist [[Anita Summers]], uncle to economist and former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President [[Lawrence Summers|Larry Summers]], and brother-in-law of the late economists [[Robert Summers (economist)|Robert Summers]] and [[Paul Samuelson]].<ref name=nyt/> In 1947, he married Selma Schweitzer, graduate in economics at the [[University of Chicago]]<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hgxQyZZnKMC&pg=PR14 |page=xiv |chapter=Kenneth J. Arrow |title=Social Choice and Public Decision Making: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume I |editor1-first=Walter P. |editor1-last=Heller |editor2-first=Ross M. |editor2-last=Starr |editor3-first=David A. |editor3-last=Starrett |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-30454-7}}</ref> and psychotherapist, who died in 2015; they had two children, David Michael (b. 1962), an actor,<ref>{{IMDb name|0037392|David Arrow}}</ref> and Andrew Seth (b. 1965), an actor/singer.<ref name=nobel/> Arrow died in his [[Palo Alto, California]], home on February 21, 2017, at the age of 95.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last1=Weinstein|first1=Michael M.|title=Kenneth Arrow, Nobel-Winning Economist Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 95|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/economy/kenneth-arrow-dead-nobel-laureate-in-economics.html|access-date=21 February 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 February 2017}}</ref>
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