Robert W. Fogel (1926–2013)

Richard H. Steckel ()
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Chapter 30 in The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, 2022, pp 773-788 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Robert W. Fogel’s career at the University of Chicago spanned the years from 1964 to his death in 2013, with an interruption for a stint at Harvard from 1975 to 1981. He had a great influence on the profession as a co-founder with Douglass North of cliometrics or new economic history, which was recognised in a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993. Fogel’s research was heavily empirical, spanning topics such as railroads and American economic growth, to the economics of American slavery, technology and the great awakenings, and health and mortality in the US and Europe. He also influenced the profession through many students and the seminar in economic history. Fogel was president of the American Economic Association in 1998.

Keywords: Railroads; Slavery; Religion; Anthropometrics; Nobel Prize (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01775-9_30

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