Robert Fogel
1926
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2013
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Stuyvesant High School
occupation: economist, economic historian, historian, writer, university teacher
award received: Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Bancroft Prize, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society
position held: university teacher
student of: Evsey Domar
influenced by: Evsey Domar, Simon Kuznets
Robert William Fogel (; July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) – the use of quantitative methods in history. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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