Robert Fogel
Economist, Academic
1926 – 2013
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Who was Robert Fogel?
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner 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 at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as a leading advocate of New economic history or cliometrics—the use of quantitative methods in history.
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- Born
- Jul 1, 1926
New York City - Ethnicity
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- Cornell University
- Stuyvesant High School
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Jun 11, 2013
Oak Lawn
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on July 23, 2013
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