Robert Fogel
| Robert Fogel | |
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| Born |
July 1, 1926 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 11, 2013 (aged 86) Oak Lawn, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Field |
Economic history Cliometrics |
| School or tradition |
Chicago School |
| Alma mater |
Stuyvesant High School Cornell University Columbia University Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Simon Kuznets |
| Academic advisors |
Evsey Domar Abba Lerner Fritz Machlup |
| Awards |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993) Bancroft Prize (1975) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Robert William Fogel (/ˈfoʊɡəl/; 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.
Fogel was born in New York City, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Odessa (1922). His brother, six years his senior, was his main intellectual influence in his youth as he listened to him and his college friends intensely discuss social and economic issues of the Great Depression. He graduated from the Stuyvesant High School in 1944. Upon his graduation he found himself with a love for literature and history and aspired for a career in science, but due to an extreme pessimism about the economy in the second half of the 40s, he shifted his interest towards economics. He was educated at Cornell University, where he majored in history with an economics minor, and became president of the campus branch of American Youth for Democracy, a communist organization. After graduation in 1948, he became a professional organizer for the Communist Party. After working eight years as a professional organizer, he rejected communism as unscientific and attended Columbia University, where he studied under George Stigler and obtained an MA in economics in 1960. He received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1963.
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